“I don’t know. Everything’s better when you’re around.”

“Why on earth would you want me to stay with you, anyway?” I asked.Travis shrugged, shoving his hands in his pockets. “I don’t know. Everything’s better when you’re around.”

“I don’t know – I suppose if you’re very unhappy at home, anywhere is better than there.”

“That’s what you don’t get, Hadlee. You’re saving me too. Every second I spend with you, you save me a little more. When I’m around you, I want to better myself. I want to be a better man.”

“But I watch my brothers give their hearts away and I think, Don’t you know better? Hearts are breakable. And I think even when you heal, you’re never what you were before.”

“Listen to me. I don’t know what’s going on. I don’t know what any of this means. But I know this much. It doesn’t matter. You’re not one of them. You never were. You’re not theirs. You’re mine.”