One person's trauma is another's loss of innocence.

When you don't know where you're headed, you find places no one else would ever explore.

He rises over me, a second sun, and fills me with light and heat.

The damage was permanent; there would always be scars. But even the angriest scars faded over time until it was difficult to see them written on the skin at all, and the only thing that remained was the memory of how painful it had been.

The truth doesn't always set you free; people prefer to believe prettier, neatley wrapped lies

She was forced to consider the startling fact that the love of her life might not actually be someone with whom she could spend a lifetime.

and yet, you never knew wwhat you were capable of until you arrived at that given moment. Life was just a whole string of spots where you continued to surprise yourself.