The real question is, can you love the real me? Not the perfect person you want me to be, not that image you had of me, but who I really am.

Music burst through him, perfect notes he hear rarely. Fire and ice, wind and calm, sky and earth, water and rock all fused together. Joley seemed as wild and turbulent s the sea, yet beneath her fiery passion, at the very core of her, she was as forceful and strong and as constant as the deepest ocean currents. Ilya seemed as calm as a windless sea, yet beneath the surface smoldered a volcano of such explosive magnitude, his power could easily sweep everything from his path. Together they completed each other, his melody and hers merging together into a single, perfect harmony.

It’s hard to feel desire when you don’t feel desirable

...but you have to know when you close those doors, you don't leave anything for the other person.

I realized I love him just as much or more than I did four years ago. That I'm never live with him" She raised her head to look at her sisters with haunted eyes. "And I don't know if I can live without him.

If what he said was the truth, it broke her heart. If what he said was a lie, it was broken anyway.