“People can't cry forever. Everyone eventually falls asleep.”
“Back at the hut, all my sister, they start to cry. "No crying," my aunt says, very strict. "You cry only in your mind."But later, when everyone else asleep, I hear my aunt, her tears, they fall like rain.”
“A fire can't burn forever. Eventually, it consumes itself.”
“Everyone eventually falls for the two of you together. You're meant to be.”
“But even when I stop crying, even when we fall asleep and I'm nestled in his arms, this will leave another scar. No one will see it. No one will know. But it will be there. And eventually all of the scars will have scars, and that's all I'll be--one big scar of a love gone wrong.”
“Anna gave me a humoring smile. “Everyone eventually falls for the two of you together. You’re meant to be.”