Except even at the start, when we were in that can't-get-enough-of-you-phase, there was like some invisible wall between us. At first I tried to take it down, but it took so much effort to even make cracks. And then I got tired of trying. Then I justified it. This was just how adult relationships were, how love felt once you had a few battle scars.

I'm not sure this is a world I belong in anymore. I'm not sure that I want to wake up.

I know that all the magic kisses in the world probably couldn't have helped him today. But I would do anything to have been able to give him one.

I’ve been feeling something else. Like I’m about to be sucked into something powerful and painful.

There’s a piece of lead where my heart should beat Doctor said too dangerous to take out You’d better just leave it be Body grew back around it, a miracle, praise be Now, if only I could get through airport security “bullet

You know, I thought about that a lot these last couple of years," She says in a choked voice. "About who was there for you. Who held your hand while you grieved for all that you'd lost?

I don't know who I am. Or maybe I do know who I am and I just don't want to be her anymore.