When we were first married, I thought he must have been the most heartless, hateful man I'd ever known, but he was just as much a prisonor as I was. Where Vaughn imprisoned me with walls, he imprisoned his son with ignorance.

No matter how lonely it makes me, and no matter how wide and horrific the loneliness, at least I remember who I am.

I had this feeling like the solution to everything would be down there if only I could dig through all those clouds.

Bet you never eat, he says. Bet you drink up the oxygen like it's butter. Bet you can go for days on nothing but thoughts.

Set fire to the broken pieces; start anew.

A party in the orange grove. The pain on Linden's face is immediate. I am unwavering. He has cost me more pain than I will ever be able to repay.

And if I have to die trying, I will get out of here.