…was designed to protect his heart, to bind me and bribe me to stay with him no matter what. He was giving everything he had.

There's nothing like a little Gideon therapy to make things look up.

I had to bite back a laugh. "Cary Taylor. Loving you isn't a character defect." Chapter 12, pg 213

I know it's not fair to ask you to be with me when we can't even sleep in the same bed, but I'll love you better than anyone else could. I'll take care of you and make you happy. I know I can.

I realized we'd pulled into a parking garage. We drove around two levels, pulled into a spot, then immediately pulled out again. Along with four other black Bentley SUVs. "What's going on?" I asked, as we headed back toward the exit with two Bentleys in front of us and two behind us. "Shell game," he said.

I require distance from the past in order to grasp the future.

..nothing in your past can change how I feel about you. And God knows I’m no saint.