Transformation Isn't easy when most of the people in your life think you're already perfect, and want you to stay just how they see you. Try to begin a new phase, you'd better expect push-back. Try to create a whole new you, your friend list will shrink considerably.

Anger requires energy, something I don't dare waste on what cannot be altered.

He's solid. "You're fractured." He's hopeful. "You're hopeless." He's always there. "You're half there." He's faithful. "You're so not." He's giving. "You're afraid to give." He's honest. "You lie all the time." He's loving. "You don't know how to love.

No one teaches you how to walk away from someone who you know loves you. NO one teaches you how to say good-bye.

Now that I have opened that bottle of memories they're pouring out like wine, crimson and bittersweet.

And this is a kiss like none before, a kiss that could overcome the dark of deep space night. It's a falling star, flame, ice. It's pure as water from a snow-fed mountain spring. This is what you dream a kiss to be. To have a kiss just like this each and every day! How satisfying life would be.

It's just so hard to feel good, you know?" I do know. And more than that, it's just so incredibly hard to feel. (54)