As the old saying goes, "sometimes loving someone means letting them go.

I don't need more pain in my life. Why did I invite it in? Do I have to feel pain to believe I feel anything at all?

he sucked the nectar from her heart like a famished butterfly.

I nod, because I do understand. I'm just not sure how to go about divorcing myself from the evil I've already accepted.

You can’t walk away from someone you love, leave them drowning in your desertion. If love has no more meaning than that, you can keep it. I don’t want it now or ever again. Don’t want to hear the word or wear its scars.

In control. Out of control. Sometimes they're the same thing. The trick is knowing that, realizing it's okay to feel out of control once in a while, as long as you're sure you can regain the upper hand when you absolutely need to.

empty and closed, hovering in some frozen netherworld neither sun nor rain could thaw.