Hope can make people do terrible things.

Torture is not torture when there’s any hope of relief.

I'm wondering how many more mistakes I'll have to make before things finally fall into place. If they ever will.

I feel like I've been split open and stuffed with sunshine.

I love you exactly as you are.

Hope. It's like a drop of honey, a field of tulips blooming in the springtime. It's a fresh rain, a whispered promise, a cloudless sky, the perfect punctuation mark at the end of a sentence. And it's the only thing in the world keeping me afloat.

His lips soften into a smile that cracks apart my spine. He repeats my name like the word amuses him. Entertains him. Delights him. In seventeen years no one has said my name like that