“The ocean pulsed outside our window. The sound of the waves crashing on the rocks below usually calmed me down, but the fear and chaos that were tangled in my mind made that an impossibility.”

“He made me feel unhinged . . . like he could take me apart and put me back together again and again.”

“I melted into the dream as if I had always been there. I knew where I had come from; I knew where I was going.”