“...Feeling like your life's been ripped apart and put together again, only put together wrong.”

“Then don’t fall.” He caught her close and offered a teasing smile. “Trip a little and I’ll catch you.”

“You put your hand on Corinne's back like this again and I'm breaking your fingers.”

“We were together because we were addicted to each other. I was never as intoxicated as I was when we were happy together, and I knew it was the same for him. We were putting ourselves through the wringer for those moments of perfection between us, but they were so tenuous that only our stubbornness, determination and love kept us fighting for them.”

“He made me feel unhinged . . . like he could take me apart and put me back together again and again.”

“Every soul innately yearns for stillness, for a space, a garden where we can till, sow, reap, and rest, and by doing so come to a deeper sense of self and our place in the universe. Silence is not an absence but a presence. Not an emptiness but repletion A filling up.”

“What I want is for both of us to feel safe. What you and I have together shouldn't be draining us like this. It should be the one rock-solid thing we both count on.”