You nickednamed my daughter after the Loch Ness Monster?

Run, Bella, run. I love you too much, for your good or mine.

Never before had I recognized the ring of majesty that was in Billy Black's voice, though I realized now that this authority had always been there.

Bella, there's a part of you that loves me.

"You are the noblest, purest creature I've ever met. The universe will be a darker place without you," he whispered.

If you turned the fabric of our lives over, I imagined the design on the backside would be woven in the bleak grays of doubt and fear.

He called you pretty...That's practically an insult, the way you look right now...You're much more than beautiful.