Marissa Mendise

“something happening to you doesn’t make you. It can feel like it kills you, but it still isn’t you. It happened. It changed you,”
― Christopher Greyson, The Girl Who Lived

“Sloane Walton, I have loved you for so long I don’t remember what my life was like before my heart was yours. It’s changed over the years. But I’ve loved you as a friend, an enemy, a lover. It would be my greatest honor in this lifetime if you would let me love you as my wife.”
― Lucy Score, Things We Left Behind

“You were meant to be together, so you could be her guiding light through all of this. You were created perfectly for her, to make this time for my girl special. To make sure her remaining days were filled with things her mama and I could never have given her.”
― Tillie Cole, A Thousand Boy Kisses

“There are some things we never get over. Some things we hide from the light,”
― Lucy Score, Things We Left Behind