Alana Meyer’s Reviews > Chemical: Volume Two > Status Update

“There's a place for me. And I know where it is. It's not just a general location....or even a metaphysical space, in the hearts of the people I love. It is a very specific niche, a place both physical and intangible -in the curve of Anja's back, against the slope of her shoulder, in the crook of her neck, in the warm breath of her lungs. I live in the pause between her heartbeats.”

“One of the elders in Sask told me that I'd know I was home when I saw it. And the second I laid eyes on this girl I felt it....She was my home. Unfortunately she belonged to someone else at the time, so I had to wait a while before I could get the keys and take possession.”

"I go there every other Wednesday and listen to her tell stories that sound like fairytales but that are actually horror stories if you pay close attention. And do you know what? There's always more than one monster in them. It's never just that asshole of a stepdad...There's always a second villain, one that lets it all happen, that stands back in the shadows and watches and doesn't do anything to help.”

This: “”You two are a twisted fairytale,” Ewan had said on our wedding day.”

Exactly how I see these two.

“"He could hear the moon. He could smell the sky. Boy moved like the wind and spoke to the earth and it talked back. He understood.”” <———Another perfect description of Tom.

This: “He looked over at me and smiled, and I realized that behind the black sunglasses was a guardian angel with a bad attitude who would spend the rest of his life looking out for me.”

Perfect!