Sometimes I could almost hate you because you don't understand how much you mean to me, how dark and empty I was before. Solnyshko moyo.

It’s easy to do right when everything goes right. But let everything go wrong, and see how difficult it becomes.

Possessiveness isn’t love. I’m not even sure it qualifies as an emotion.

My heart should be breaking, too, but there comes a point when you’re so inured to loss that you no longer feel the lash.

More than most, I know the pain of surviving.

Because I love you.' It was easy to say it this time now that I understood what it meant. Then I quoted his own words back to him. 'Not just when it's easy. All the time.

But I miss the woman I was, even as I learn to accept the new creature I’ve become.