Julie Berry

Lovely War

Ashlyn Barrett

Kisses by the billions happen every day, even in a lonely world like ours.

Mortals aren't meant to love perfection. It disillusions and destroys them in the end.

It's because they're weak and damaged that they can love. We need nothing. They're lucky to need each other. 

He only had one chance to interact with her, only one thing he could decently say: that he loved her music, that it took him away from this place, and that she, she, had given him this indescribable gift of escape. 

Hazel went from stranger and pianist to reason why the war mattered at all, symbol of all that was pure and beautiful and worth dying for in a broken world.

How could she betray this moment to fear of others?

You're a brand-new piece of sheet music, for a song which, once played, I’d swear I'd always known.

He looked down at the numb fingertips pressed between his own, and instinctively folded the whole bundle under his coat, to the warmth over his heart.

It was the dimples. Empires have swiveled on less.

He knew his happiness belonged to the piano girl. Whether she would take and keep it safe for him, or not.

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