Taking no chances means wasting your dreams.

I know he wants to get serious. He's definitely not a player, not a poser, not a loser, not a user.

Have to Find ...life ...is ...a— ...gamble ...after ...all.

I really have to wonder who or what made Daddy become this way. Babies aren't born cruel or filled with sick desire. Evil is not intrinsic. It's fashioned.

Too much to take in, too much to purge. Why must every memory, once sweet, dead end in such ugliness?

How odd, to suddenly glimpse a facet of me I didn't know existed. I guess it really isn't all that unusual to surprise oneself with an ugly bit of ego.

Learning by example is valid, but when you have the information to know that turning in a certain direction can lead you to a very wrong place, most of the "blame" is on the individual.