Hundreds of butts in piles on the ground to mark the spot, their lives sucked out of them by their users in panicked distressed frenzy, their souls floating around the insides of lungs while their outsides were dropped, stamped on and deserted

I think I need to face what I could have been in order to understand and accept what I am.

Often when we realize how precious those seconds are, it's too late for them to be captured because the moment has passed. We realize too late.

Believe me, when you die, it's everybody else's but your problem

Empty words almost echo within themselves

Holly smiled weakly. Gerry would know exactly how she was feeling, he would know exactly what to say and he would know exactly what to do. He would give her one of his famous hugs and all her problems would melt away. She grabbed a pillow from her bed and hugged it tight. She couldn't remember the last time she hugged someone, really hugged someone. And the depressing thing was that she couldn't imagine ever embracing anyone the same way again.

Time cannot be packaged and ribboned and left under trees for christmas morning.Time can't be given.But it can be shared