It’ll be so much easier than Lindsey thinks.

All I have to do is show him how good it feels to understand and be understood.

If I show him what it feels like to be truly loved, then he’ll finally know how to love me back.

It’s all about matching energies — he just doesn’t know how to match mine yet.

I’m sure he’ll stop leaving bruises soon.

I’m sure, one day, he’ll hear me when I say no.

I’m almost positive his apologies and his I love you’s will eventually mean something.

All he needs is time.

And I’ve given him so much of mine — time that has to be worth something, right?

They say it takes patience to grow a garden.

I just didn’t know the garden I was tending was full of oleander, wolfsbane, foxglove, and lily of the valley.

Beautiful things can still be poison.