Leah' Olivia says quietly, 'if you point at me again I'm going to break that manicured finger right off your hand. Now turn around and smile, your daughter is waking up.

"Tell me a truth, Senna.'I don't know how,' I breath.'Then tell me a lie.'I don't love you,' I say. I sink beneath the weight of it all.Isaac stirs behind me, and then he is leaning over me, his elbows on either side of my head.'The truth is for the mind,' he says. 'Lies are for the heart. So let's just keep lying."

Tarryn Fisher

"I was just a flat line until he came along. And maybe now I'm hurting. But isn't that what love is supposed to do? Make you feel, make you brave, make you look at yourself more carefully?"

Tarryn Fisher