“James never met anyone named Livvie. He never hurt her.”

“For what it's worth Livvie, I never thought of you as a whore. And you are...the most beautiful thing I've ever seen.”

“Mine.The word was a declaration. It rocked him to his very foundation. It was a truth he’d kept hidden for far too long. Caleb didn’t know anything about love, or loving anyone, but he knew… Livvie was his.”

“Her words, her presence, and her pain, affected him. He hated it. His memories, the ones he worked so hard to push deep into forgotten recesses of his mind, banged on the door of his consciousness. They connected with Livvie, they connected to her suffering, and together, they threatened to undo him.”

“You'll always be Kitten to me...Livvie.”

“I can’t keep you, Livvie. Stop trying to make me.”

“What mattered is I was different. The naive girl in me had been bitch-slapped into womanhood. ~Livvie”