Danielle W

“I gather myself. "I never even really knew why I kept them. But then you came along and teased me about it... and then you stuck. And then you loved me. And more than that, you became the only home I've ever really known. The only place I've ever really felt safe to be me. And then I didn't need to hold on to them anymore. Those little remnants of my past didn't seem to matter.”
― Hannah Bonam-Young, Next of Kin

“Does he know how long I have wanted to hear someone say that to me? To feel in my bones that they mean it?”
― Hannah Bonam-Young, Next of Kin

“You’re it for me, dove. You’re going to be my last everything.”
― Hannah Bonam-Young, Next of Kin

“A dove is a symbol of peace.” He reaches towards me, holding my cheek in his palm. “That’s what you are to me… peace.”
― Hannah Bonam-Young, Next of Kin