Rochelle

“Pain, fear, humiliation, it turned his beautiful dark eyes into a window of hell. It was the first glimpse I’d had of the prison he lived in. A captive to the uncontrollable tics ravaging his body. I think it was then I understood the solace he found in the light. Just as it blinded the world to seeing what was there, it blinded Morgan. It tucked him away from the things he could not control and the things reminding him he was different. How he would never truly fit in. How he existed on the edge between here and wherever it was he went when the light spoke to him.”
― Adrienne Wilder, In the Absence of Light

“A mated Walker was a beast better left unprovoked.”
― Nicole Edwards, Ethan

“Well, last time I checked, if you don’t eat, you starve to death. Same thing happens when you don’t love, only you starve to death on the inside instead of the outside. Either way you die. So seems to me eat’n and love’n have a lot more in common than you think.”
― Adrienne Wilder, In the Absence of Light

“Love is easy." He traced my eyebrow with his thumb.

"Trust is what's hard. Broken hearts can be fixed. Broken trust?" His touch followed a tear down my cheek to my lips.

"Trust doesn't heal. Your parents broke your trust when you were really young, it changed you, it took something away. Then the one time you let trust grow, you thought it had been broken again. That's where it can be tricky, because sometimes trust feels broken when it's only a little dented up.”
― Adrienne Wilder, In the Absence of Light