You are the first dream, the only dream I ever was unable to stop myself from dreaming. You are the first dream of my soul, and from that dream I hope will come all other dreams, a lifetime’s worth.
he remembered tessa weeping in his arms in paris and thinking he had never known the loss she felt because he had never loved like she had and that he was afraid that someday he would and like tessa he would lose his mortal love. and that it was better to be the one that died than the one that lived on.