" I've hoped for this for so many years, waited for someone to come along whom you could finally love more than your family, someone who would turn you inside-out and toss you off your path,' His mother looked positively gleeful in the face of his misery. 'Someone just like Nicola for you to blow it with. "

― Bella Andre , From This Moment On (San Francisco Sullivans, #2; The Sullivans, #2)