“He lay beside me all those years while I turned and twisted myself to fit beside him...”
“Join me? Patting the spot beside him, he inclined his head. “Pretty please? I’m lonely all by myself over here.”
“He lay down beside me, pulling me back to his chest and throwing his arm over me. “Mine,” he whispered in my ear.”
“More than anything, she wanted to crawl across the bloody sand toward the place where Jace’s body lay, crawl to him and lay down beside him and put her arms around him, even though he was gone.”
“When he lay beside me with his dog-breath sighs, it was if he was saying, Give me your sadness. I will take it, as much as you need. If it kills us both, so be it. I am here.”
“I wish I could lay down beside her and die too.”