It’s my future and my life and I can’t make myself live the way someone else wants me to.

It’s not only about sadness. In truth, sadness really has little to do with it. Depression is pain in its purest form and I would do anything to be able to feel an emotion again. Any emotion at all. Pain hurts, but pain that’s so powerful that you can’t feel anything anymore, that’s when you start to feel like you’re going crazy.

Maybe you should get rid of me,” I whisper onto his lips. “Never,” he says, kissing me once softly. “You’re mine for as long as you breathe.

And when someone grows up knowing so little of what real love feels like, whether from family, or friends, or the love of a companion, that person starts to believe that they weren’t meant to be loved, that good things will never happen to them. They start to believe that whenever something good does happen, it’s inevitable that something bad will come along to replace it.

Truthfully, he lives right next to the Sexy Tree and I think that's the only thing that bothers me about this whole situation.

all I want to do is pull her against me and hold her until we both die.

I shattered that memory by going back there. Without realizing it until it was too late, I replaced that memory with the emptiness of that day.