You've got to say what you mean and mean what you say...Doubt in your voice is an open door people will shove right through.

Hurt is a weapon. Better weapon than most because it doesn't look like one.

It was all the things you could never understand and could never possess that made you ache.

My subconscious speaks in a foreign language.

You … You had always made the future feel safe. As long as you were in it too, beside me, I could be okay.

It can be exhausting eating a meal cooked by a man. With a woman, it's, Ho hum, pass the beans. A guy, you have to act like he just built the Taj Mahal.

You were supposed to have hope, right? You were supposed to respect its power and hold on. And so I did. I held, and held, and let hope fill me. But as the days went on, it seemed I could be holding for a long, long time. Hope could be the most powerful thing or the most useless