hyacinthus and apollo

❝Happy endings are for prince charming with golden armors and white stallions not for bad boys with leather jackets and cigarettes. I can't be your happy ending Skyler. I can't be your prince. I'm too debauched for that. I can't be the Persephone to your Hades.❞

Yes, I assumed why things had to happen this way. I understood his reason for causing me pain. But mere understanding did not chase away the hurt. It did not call upon the sun when dark clouds have loomed over me. Let the rain came then if it must come! And let it washed away the dust that hurt my eyes.

But I held on. I wore a necklace of hope with pearly beads and faced him once more.

❝And that's okay. Maybe there was no such thing as happily ever after for us. Maybe all love stories are bound to endure difficulty and hurt. But if I can wake up in the morning, look over to you then I could survive anything with happy ending or not. Because that is what you are to me, you are my happily ever after Cole. Maybe the saddest lines can't really be written, and the saddest love stories can't really be narrated. And maybe Good Night was the closest thing we could have for little infinities. Maybe you can't be the Persephone to my Hades but please do remember; that I'll always be your Hyacinthus to your Apollo.❞

excerpt from my book / THE BOY HE LEFT BEHIND