To love someone so deeply means also that it will hurt a thousand times more when he disappoints or leaves you

Everybody starts out as strangers.

But the heart has a mind of its own and it always gets what it wants, especially when it's dying.

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.

Oh, this is going to be fun; he actually thinks he's teaching me something.

I say that I'm not into you like that, Camryn, because..," he pauses, searching my face, looking at my lips for a moment as if deciding whether or not he should kiss them again, "...because you're not the girl I could only sleep with once.

all I want to do is pull her against me and hold her until we both die.