“Because then you all still do it but you hide it!” he defended, knowing that wasn’t really a good excuse for having come out here without telling. But it was true. “You just filter it so Grace and I can’t see what you say online but we see it elsewhere. In your moods. When certain things get like mentioned. Your body language gives away a lot.”
He didn’t believe the part about love anymore. He tried to, he really wanted to, but it simply didn’t ring true with everything else. Belle had her love back and she was still angry and bitter at times. Graham was alive and happy but he still felt so much hatred for Regina because of all she had done to him. The woman before him still hated her for having kept her from her own mother for all of those years. And even Henry despised the fact that Regina had nearly convinced himself that he’d been crazy. Had harnessed inside of him a fear of apples that he wasn’t certain he’d ever get over.
So how could love win out when anger seemed to pull everyone back down whenever it wanted to? “It didn’t take away the pain though. It just made it more real.”
Without love then maybe there wouldn’t be any reason to feel pain.