“These branches will be my bones, I thought, and the paper will be my heart and skin, the places that feel everything.”
“I want us. I want to swim in the way you make me feel; I want it to soak my clothes until they become a skin, and I want my skin to soak into my bones.”
“Everything he did was a physical thing. When he spoke, my bones ached. When he breathed, I felt it in my veins and on my skin. ”
“Aiden had slipped under my skin, wrapped himself around my heart and embedded himself into my bones.”
“He was in my nose, my mouth, on my skin, inside my cells, deep in the marrow of my bones. Just then, he was everything to me.”
“What I feel for you runs deeper than my thoughts, and deeper than my heart. The place where I find the most love for you is in my soul.”