QUOTE : Feelings, emotions, love, desire, happiness, safety, beauty, laughter—everything that was Julia, it ripped through him with a stunning force and nearly brought him to his knees. Or, more to the point, it mended him, taking the jagged, long-unused shards of his heart and rending them together, complete, functioning and healthy, the scars simply fading away. He had not needed to put her back together. He had needed her to do it for him.