I love you," I tell him again. "I see that," he laughs, kissing me. "Simple words would have sufficed. You didn't need to knock me down with it." I giggle. "Shut up and kiss me.

“You don't have to beat around the bush about it, Mila. If you want to be there …”

“After a thousand years pass, it builds its own funeral pyre, lining it with cin…”

“I’m sorry,” I say and the words start spilling out. “I’m sorry. I should have j…”

“I focus on my favorite daydream, the one where I return from London at the end …”