QUOTE : I just didn’t realize until this moment that Oakley and I were so poisonous together.<br /><br />I thought we were happy and in love.<br /><br />Two broken pieces of the same soul.<br /><br />But maybe we weren’t?<br /><br />Maybe we were fire and gasoline instead.<br /><br />Maybe what we felt for each other was a lethal addiction.<br /><br />And the only way to save ourselves from total destruction is to quit each other.<br /><br />Broken Kingdom Page 83<br /><br /> <br />It’s obvious he loves his son.<br /><br />And even though a parent’s love is a foreign concept to me given my own father was an absentee parent for most of my life…I do have two brothers who would do anything to protect me from harm.<br /><br />I just didn’t realize until this moment that Oakley and I were so poisonous together.<br /><br />I thought we were happy and in love.<br /><br />Two broken pieces of the same soul.<br /><br />But maybe we weren’t?<br /><br />Maybe we were fire and gasoline instead.<br /><br />Maybe what we felt for each other was a lethal addiction.<br /><br />And the only way to save ourselves from total destruction is to quit each other.<br /><br /><br /> <br />Maybe that’s why my mother made me promise her I’d never fall in love.<br /><br />Because she knew all along what it could do to a person.<br /><br />The way it could annihilate you until there was nothing left but a barren, hollow spot where your heart used to be.<br /><br />And that death was a fate far better than a love you were forbidden to have.