So it’s really best to keep your secrets when you have them, for their own good, as well as yours.

People see what they wish to see. And in most cases, what they are told that they see.

And before he can tell her to tell Widget goodbye for him if need be, she leans forward and kisses him, not on the cheek, as she has a handful of times before, but on the lips, and Bailey knows in that moment that he will follow her anywhere.

You told me love was fickle and fleeting.

Have you ever thought about it, about simply leaving? Really, truly thought about it with the intent to follow through and not as a dream or a passing fancy?

The rain increases and umbrellas sprout like mushrooms amongst the graves.

I am tired of trying to hold things together that cannot be held. Trying to control what cannot be controlled. I am tired of denying myself what I want for fear of breaking things I cannot fix. They will break no matter what we do.