Cool superiority as a mask for overflowing insecurity.
She'd be one of those parents who left a kid behind at a rest stop, driving for miles before she noticed. We'd hear about her on the evening news.
People are secretive when they have secrets.
A lot of life is just surviving what happens.
Because words were hills and valleys you traveled, so lovely sometimes that they hurt your eyes.
A drop of poison on that gathering snow. That moment in the fairy tale when we know what just happened but the princess doesn’t.