The only reason I left was to protect you.

You never know how much time you'll have.

With our rarely changing temperaments strong emotions can alter us in permanent ways. But he said I did not need to worry about that part – you had already altered me so completely.

You dont know how hard it was for me to take you and leave them alive.

She wasn't speaking to me - in the juvenile, petty sense of the phrase.

Ian paused and leaned closer to me so that I couldn't seem to see anything around his face, just snow and sapphire and ink.

Because there was just one thing that I had to believe to be able to live - I had to know that he existed. That was all. Everything else I could endure. So long as he existed.