For love to flourish there has to be trust. Promises don’t matter as much as personal choice.

With a polite smile, I decided she was insane.

Each time Stalker called you 'dove', I wanted to hit him. Because you're not a little gray bird... you're all the light in the world.

I shake my head, but I can’t change this. I can only bear the scars, as I have always done, as I ever do.

Sometimes I could almost hate you because you don't understand how much you mean to me, how dark and empty I was before. Solnyshko moyo.

Life…never gave me a chance to be soft.

For I need this scar over my heart to remind me. Crazy as it sounds, if I can bear the wound on my body, it lessens what I must carry on my soul. How he knew that about me, I cannot fathom.