You’re insane, you know that?” he says. “It’s the only thing keeping me afloat,” I say.

Rhine. The river that, somewhere out there, has broken free.

I think she's brave. I think that nobody has ever believed what she could be capable of. All her life, nobody was listening.

Fate,' I said, 'Is a theif.

Linden just wants to protect her, is what I want to say. She's all he has. I left him. I'm at arms reach, but I've left him.

Don't you miss it?" I say. "Being free." He laughs.

She would do anything, anything to belong to his son after a lifetime of belonging to no one at all.