“I've been at the place where it seems like the only way left is down.”

“Come with me somewhere. Please. I've been waiting eight months to talk to you”

“I've never felt like this before, with anyone. It's against the rules of surviving.”

“When it all comes down to it, it’s just me and her against the world. Always has been.”

“Okay, I'm going to be completely honest here." I take a deep breath, because what I'm about to say is very real and more honest than I've ever been. "I don't want to be away from you for that long.”

“I've missed you, Ella May”

“It's amazing how the things you remember forever are the things you'd rather forget and the things you desperately want to grasp onto seem to slip away like sand in the wind.”