Quotes

Daniel and Luce

"I won't leave you," Luce said to Daniel. Her lip quivered. "I've only just gotten you back."

Daniel held her close. "I wanted to bring you here because this is one place - one of many places - where I've really wanted to kiss you these past few weeks."

"I do all of these things," Daniel said leaning into her so that their foreheads touched, "because you're my love, Lucinda. For me, you're all there is."

"What is it?" he asked, lifting his chin.
she stood where she was, at a distance from him.
"I promised you I'd stick around long enough to hear the good news."

"You're so... beautiful," she whispered into his chest, "I mean, you've always been beautiful, but this-"
"Does it scare you?" he whispered. "Does it hurt to look?"
She shook her head. "I thought it might," she said, thinking back to her dreams. "But it hurts not to."

"Try to remember what I said."
"Which part?" Luce asked, slightly panicked.
"As much as you can - but mostly, that I love you."

"Please don't worry. I will always come for you. I won't let you go until you understand that."
"Then I refuse to understand."

Daniel gently wiped her tears with the back of his hand. "What happened to Penn is terrible. A huge mistake. But when you walk away today, you won't be leaving her." He laid a hand over Luce's heart. "She's with you."

"I've already had to wait so long."
"How long?" Luce asked.
"Not so long that I've forgotten that you're worth everything. Every sacrifice. Every pain.

"It's such a beautiful question, Luce. I adore you for asking it, and I wish I could explain it better. All I can tell you is this: The only way to survive eternity is to be able to appreciate each moment. That's all I was doing."
"Eternity," Luce repeated. "Yet another thing I wouldn't understand."

"I know this sound incredibly-"
"Crazy?"
He smiled. "I was going to say vague. But I'm trying not to hide anything from you. It's just a very, very delicate subject. Sometimes, in the past, just talking like this has-"
She watched for the shape of the words on his lips, but he wouldn't say anything.
"Killed me?"
"I was going to say broken my heart."

And while Luce dreamed below of the most glorious wings unfurling-the likes of which she'd never seen before-two angels in the rafters shook hands.

She buried her face in his shoulder. And while the truth still scared her, being in his arms made her feel like the sea finding its shore, like a traveler returning after a long, hard, distant trip-- finally returning home.

Gorgeous, glowing rays of light...This was what true beauty and goodness looked like-- a spectral, luminescent gathering of beings so pure it hurt to look directly at them, like the most glorious eclipse, or maybe Heaven itself.

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