and I've always known it, the way I love a song I hear for the first time, even before I know all the words, the way I love my favorite color, and the way that the train would speed past my bedroom when it was very quiet and I'd feel it in my stomach rushing through me. I love you in a way that I've never felt needed to be said.

We are stronger than we've credited ourselves to be. We have been the victims and the witnesses. We have said a lifetime of good-byes.

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

There's a world out there that nobody has bothered to promise her.

We destroy things with our curiosity. We shatter with our best intentions

I'll tell you something about true love. There's no science to it. It's as natural as the sky.

Before I can process what’s happening, Deirdre has opened her hands and Linden has taken the ring from her and slipped it onto my finger. “Rhine Ashby,” he says. “My wife.