Stela

“I’m not worth dying for,” she’d whispered that last night when she hadn’t thought I was still awake. “But you, Chase Abandonato… you’re worth living for, breathing for, existing for. The only way to break — is from being already broken.” “I am broken.” I’d whispered as if I was in a dream. “But…” She’d placed a hand on my chest, and my heart had surged to life. “You don’t have to be…”
― Rachel Van Dyken, Eulogy

“He had told me that saving me was his atonement for living the life he did, but he didn’t seem to realize that it was his love that had saved me, not his guns.”
― Odette Stone, Dark Russian Angel

“You know my love for you spans the world. It trumps time, space, human life. I chose you knowing hundreds would suffer. I could never make a decision that didn’t put you above all.”
― Jessica Hawkins, Violent Triumphs