kitap alıntısı #82, Düşüş (Fallen) - Lauren Kate

        “I’m sorry,” she said, dragging her eyes back to Daniel. “Could you, um, say that again?”

        “I get to live forever,” he repeated. Luce was still lost, but he kept talking, a stream of words pouring out of his mouth. “I get to live, and to watch babies being born, and grow up, and fall in love. I watch them have babies of their own and grow old. I watch them die. I am condemned, Luce, to watch it all over again and again. Everyone but you.” His eyes were glassy. His voice dropped to a whisper. “You don’t get to fall in love—”

        “But...” she whispered back. “I’ve... fallen in love.”

        “You don’t get to have babies and grow old, Luce.”

        “Why not?”

        “You come along every seventeen years.”

        “Please—”

        “We meet. We always meet, somehow we’re always thrown together, no matter where I go, no matter how I try to distance myself from you. It never matters. You always find me.”

        He was staring down at his clenched fists now, looking like he wanted to hit something, unable to raise his eyes.

        “And every time we meet, you fall for me—”

        “Daniel—”

        “I can resist you or flee from you or try my hardest not to respond to you, but it makes no difference. You fall in love with me, and I with you.”

        “Is that so terrible?”

        “And it kills you.”



- Lauren Kate, Düşüş, Fallen #1