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

maybe there is more to a person than a body and a mind. maybe something else figures into the mix— not a soul, exactly, but a spirit that hints you might one day be greater, stronger than you are now. a promise; a potential.

I think her flaws make me love her even more. She's not perfect, but she's perfect to me

When you love someone more than he loves you, you'll do anything to switch the scales. You dress the way you think he'd like you to dress. You pick up his favorite figures of expression. You tell yourself that if you re-create yourself in his image, then he'll crave you in the same way you crave him.

You don't need water to feel like you're drowning, do you?

Superheroes were born in the minds of people desperate to be rescued.

Violence up close has a smell. Like copper blood and charcoal burning.