Eclipse

“I mean I love you, and I want to be with you, and if you want to be with me, then nothing is going to stop me. Not timing, not babies, nothing. If you want to do this, if you want to be with me, I will take you in whatever form I can have you. I will love you just as you are. I won’t try to change a single thing about you.”

To make them prove their love, he’d done something terrible. He dreaded the possibility that he might have to do something worse

“Something happened that made you decide you’d had all the life you could stand. So you ended it there. Except you have to stay alive, for your father.”

the fundamental need for connection and the fear of losing it,