Nadège Richards

Give me this moment," Kahl said to me. I glanced up at him and couldn't fathom the depths of his taunting amber irises."You have it." "Be my angel... Leave with me," he whispered. In that moment, when thoughts of the boy I loved left me and fissures of pure bliss consumed me, I knew I was in trouble.

There is no sanctity. This is the downfall of innocence.

If kissing was a language I was sure we__ know it well. If it could measure the amount of love you felt for someone, our love was infinite after all. Even when we hugged I felt a special connection to him. It was in his loving embrace that I sought solace, where I found it, and where I would keep it. Our love was enchanting and magical, secretive and special. Overall, though, it was ours and we would treasure it.

The first kiss is the deepest.""The last breath is the hardest.

Today is yesterday's victory, yesterday is tomorrow's conquest, and tomorrow is today's war. Though I face death, I am not fearsome.

I wish for today and dream of yesterday. If the gods should hold me in their favor, then I shall hope for tomorrow.

Give unto your all everything, for you never know when it will be your last...

Stop setting yourself on fire for people who just stand to watch you burn.

Is our blood not the same color? Do we not bleed the same or share each other's burdens? ... What makes you and I so different, Ayden?

Some of us are born to live and to fight, Echo. Others are born to fight for their right to live. When those two collide, there__ hell to pay.

Perhaps soul mates don__ exist, I thought. Maybe they were only a way to get over a loss that couldn__ be forgotten, a way to mend a heart that was unredeemable__n aberrant remedy that dissolved long before the healing began. A way to love a numberless amount of times when it was finite all along. Perhaps love was this illusory wonder and we were reaching for the impossible. Maybe it wasn__ likely to know someone so completely and maybe, just maybe_ there was no beauty in having a soul.

What are we going to do, Ayden?" she whispered, glaring up at me."I don't know," I confessed. "But how about we burn that bridge when we get there?""I thought it was 'cross' that bridge?"I lightly poked her in the eye and she laughed. "No. We're burning bridges. Crossing is so overrated." I smiled and touched the corner of her eyes, captivated by the iridescent blues."I think I like the sound of that," she whispered."Yeah?""Yeah.

Never limit yourself to what you can't do, but to what you have the power to do with what you have.

My parents say you__e no good, Elijah._ I exhaled and killed the cigarette in the grass.Laughing, Eli__ eyes went to my lips and his hands touched my bare midriff. __eally? And what do you say?__e had brought his lips so close to mine that it became hard to think about my next words when all I wanted to do was crush my mouth to his. I wanted him to completely consume me. __ think you__e broken,_ I finally got out, and Eli arched a brow. __ut I think I__ broken too. I just don__ know it yet.

I'm not sure I'll ever know the meaning of life or what comes for us after death, but I know it's more than the hysteria people make it out to be. It's about freeing your soul when no one else can; turning thirty and still feeling like you're seventeen. It's about taking chances on a whim, embracing the rain during the storm, and smiling so damn much that you start to cry. It's never regretting, never forgetting, and always being.It's kissing underwater and touching in the dark. Loving even when you think it's emotionally impossible and surviving someway and somehow. It's about living life with a full heart and an overflowing glass.I live life on the edge. I dream, I care, and I belong.I know there's a here and now.I know that I want it.

Life is short, Isobeli. If we gave time to everything sooner or later we'd run out of it. We only have now. And we would be foolish to not seize it while we have it. So, why would it matter if I love him today or five years from now?

Someday we're going to look back on every shared smile and smile some more. It's moments like this that make life worth enduring.

We try so hard because it is all we've ever known, I thought. We try to fit ourselves into this world so that we don't seem more different than different, an oddity in a sea of normality. We try because it is only instinct, but we obey because it is law.