[ This man... this beautiful, damaged man. He wants so desperately to love, to be loved. It's written in his very blood, a sorrow that yearns for joy. It was that capacity to love that captured Nico's heart in the first place, and no matter how much Aventurine tries to deny it, he remains convinced that he has so much yet to give.

He just needs to learn how. The chains of his fate aren't the only chains keeping him bound. He is a prisoner to his own fear as much as anything else. ]

We will all be so much dust one day, even me. I would rather have your light in my life for a moment than not at all.