One more thing: don’t feel bad for not telling me that you loved me. You didn’t need to say it. I knew all along that you did.

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?

Heart always wins out over the mind. The heart, although reckless and suicidal and a masochist all on its own, always gets its way.

My plant is probably dead." Camryn looks slightly surprised. "You have a plant?" I smile. "Yeah, her name's Georgia.

Live in the moment, where everything is just right, take your time and limit your bad memories and you'll get wherever it is you're going a lot faster and with less bumps in the way.

What you wear doesn't really matter much. All that matters is where you're going what you're doing while you're wearing it.