Life is too frickin' crazy sometimes, it really is.... You never know what's going to happen, do you.

Good? No, that didn't go far enough. She'd made him feel… alive. Awakened.

I do not crave this" But he needed it before he became a danger to himself and others.

...the only thing that had tethered her to the earth had been him and it was strange, but she felt welded to him on some core level now. He had seen her at her absolute worst, at her weakest and most insane, and he hadn't looked away. He hadn't judged and he hadn't been burned. It was as if in the heat of her meltdown they had melted together. This was more than emotion. It was a matter of soul.

God, I miss you," he said in a voice that cracked. "Every night. Every day.

To her, saving grace meant you got to live out your life like a normal person: You were healthy and strong, an the prospect of death was just some far-off, barely acknowledged hypothetical. A debt to be paid off in a future you couldn't imagine

I always root for the monster.