Children don't heal as well.. they change.. they mutate with disaster and make accomodations.

Children don't heal as well.. they change.. they mutate with disaster and make accomodations.

I guess that's the point of drinking, to take all the feelings and thoughts and morals away until you are just a body doing what a body will do.

Once you tell your first lie, the first time you lie for him, you are in it with him, and then you are lost.

Sydney discovers that she minds the loss of her mourning. When she grieved, she felt herself to be intimately connected to Daniel. But with each passing day, he floats away from her. When she thinks about him now, it is more as a lost possibility than as a man. She has forgotten his breath, his musculature.

I thought about how one tiny decision can change a life. A decision that takes only a split second to make.

The difficulty lay with the mind accommodating itself to the notion of the plane, with all its weight, defying gravity, staying aloft. She understood the aerodynamics of flight, could comprehend the laws of physics that made flight possible, but her heart, at the moment, would have none of it. Her heart knew the plane could fall out of the sky.