“A bit confused since no ones seems to realise that no matter who tessa ends up with they’re still going to have a whole twilight issue since she’s immortal — aravernlikeawritingdesk”

First I should say this is the ONLY way I can reply to the fanmail thingie — if I try in my inbox, my whole inbox blows up and I have to re sign back into tumblr. So if you have sent me fanmail and I have not replied, that is why, not because I am filled with hate or anything. I appreciate the fanmail, it is extremely kind! 

I always thought the Twilight issue wasn’t just that Bella was mortal and Edward wasn’t, but that Edward was pretty clear that he was going to kill himself when Bella died — which, inevitably, she would. Which is indeed a tragic ending for a love story.

But the fact of real life love is that most couples, unless involved in a plane crash, do not die at the same exact time. It matters who Tessa chooses because people want to know who Jem or Will are going to spend the rest of their lives with, whether that is five, fifty, or five hundred years. It matters because to say otherwise is to say that it is not the quality of the time we have with our loved ones but the quantity: that it doesn’t matter whether you are happy, or build a family, or leave great legacy, but only that you both live the exact same amount of time. It matters because none of us get forever; we all get a lifetime. It matters because to say that it does not matter is to say that no life that ends matters, which is to say that nobody’s life matters at all.

IMHO, anyway.