The Next Queen of Heaven

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Since possessing him is impossible, I want to love Willem without possessing him. I want to have him without holding him, or to hold him without having him, for better and for worse, for richer and for poorer, with our other partners and lovers and parents and children in two, till - till whenever.

And since that's not likely, not now, not yet, what I want, thought Jeremy, is a life free of him.

-Gregory Maguire, The Next Queen of Heaven