I promise to love you forever in this life and wherever we go in the afterlife, because I know I can't go on in any life unless you're in it too.

Promise me that if I ever get Alzheimer’s or dementia, and I don’t remember anyone that you’ll visit me every day and read to me like Noah read to Allie.

Victor Faust did much more than help me escape a life of abuse and servitude. He changed me. He changed the landscape of my dreams, the dreams I had every day about living ordinarily and free and on my own. He changed the colors on the palette from primary to rainbow—as dark as the colors of that rainbow may be.

What compels any of us to do the things we do when deep down a part of us just wants to break free from it all?

You're like a philosopher with tattoos.

He never leaves my side. And I know he never will.

You were the missing piece of my soul, the breath in my lungs, and the blood in my veins.