Kindness can thrive even amongst cruelty.

When do you come home to me?

I want to share this bed with you, though," I breathed. "I want you to hold me."
Stars flickered to life in his eyes. "Always," he promised, kissing my brow, his wings now enveloping me completely. "Always.

...I'm not sure I can give my entire heart to him that way. And... and I love him enough to want him to find someone who can truly love him like he deserves. And I love myself... I love myself enough to not want to settle until I find that person, too.

I see all of you, Rhys. And there is not one part that I do not love with everything I am.

I needed not to be dead when I agreed.”
“You needed not to be alone.