Paige Solveig

I have nothing to hide from you. Nothing. Porchey is a friend. And yes, there are those who would have preferred me to marry him. Indeed, marriage with him might have been easier. Might have even worked better than ours. But to everyone’s regret and frustration, the only person I have ever loved is you.

I’m strong. You know that. And I can cope with the truth … It’s when people don’t tell me the truth that I can’t bear it.

Oh, I quite understand. You need somewhere to escape to.

“A man cannot love as a woman loves; she pulls her veins into threads and uses her skin as cloth to repair the tears in his humanity. She uses the water in her eyes to wash the floors of his house, and her blood to cover up the stains on his walls. A man cannot love as a woman loves, he wouldn’t know how.”