“You and I are bound. We will be each other’s salvation, or each other’s doom.”
“We ruined each other by being together. We destroyed each other’s dreams.”
“We soon fall asleep in each other’s arms, knowing to myself that I captured her, like a prisoner in a cage.”
“You’re probably thinking: Wait, you just charged in without a plan?But Annabeth and I had been fighting together for years. We knew each other’s abilities. We could anticipate each other’s moves. I might have felt awkward and nervous about being her boyfriend, but fighting with her? That came naturally.Hmm…that sounded wrong. Oh, well.”
“Today each of you is the object of the other’s reading, one reads in the other the unwritten story.”
“The flickering candlelight conspired with the silence, and we only interrupted each other’s reading to share a casual delight.”