"But there...that night...that moment, it was the first time I'd ever been cut free. When I cut free. When I took a breath deep enough to fill me. All of my life, I'd struggled in the waves, tossed, turned, thrown about like a rag doll, forever trying to surface, screaming for air, but somewhere some unseen hand held me beneath the form and froth. But in that moment, you held back the waves, lifted me above the surface, and filled me.
The Mountain Between Us - Charles Martin



















