“She knew the soothing power of a human touch on aching flesh. Knew the strange bond that formed when two creatures united in mutual need, one hurting, the other healing.”

“She knew with painful certainty that the opposite of love was not hate, but indifference.”

“Here's the thing about broken hearts. You can always survive them. Always. No matter how deep the hurt, the capacity to heal and move on is even stronger.”

“No one had ever told them they might need each other one day, an for some reason, they hadn't figured it out themselves.”

“Fear and love were sometimes the same thing both necessary unavoidable. Now she understood that it was okay to bleed if you know how to heal.”

“There is something about losing your mother that is permanent and inexpressable - a wound that will never quite heal.”

“I love you Daddy. How hard was that to say Why hadn’t she said it before Because she wasn’t sure she meant it or was she afraid it would be one-sided”