You can be betrayed in your sleep. The whole world can tilt while you're dreaming of butterflies.

No barrier was strong enough to keep out the movement of time.

Do what you want, do what you will, do what you have to, do what you think you cannot.

This was what it meant to be human, to know that time moved and all things changed.

...he had a way of taking your hand which made it clear he'd have to be the one to let go." From Alice Hoffman's "Local Girls", pg.102.

Always keep mint on your windowsill in August, to ensure that buzzing flies will stay outside, where they belong. Don't think the summer is over, even when roses droop and turn brown and the stars shift position in the sky. Never presume August is a safe or reliable time of the year.

Maybe some love was guaranteed. Maybe it fit inside you and around you like skin and bones.