Here's what no one ever tells you about love: it hurts, having your heart broken

Clearly God was in some kind of mood on my birthday.

When you look into your baby’s eyes,” Lacy said softly, “you see everything you hope they can be…not everything you wish they won’t become.

But Katie knew it was a sin, had known from the moment she made the decision to lie with Adam. However, the transgression wasn't making love without the sanction of marriage. It was that for the first time in her life, Katie had put herself first. Put her own wants and needs above everything and everyone else.

What if love wasn't the act of finding what you were missing but the give-and-take that made you both match?

It just goes to show you: you can put nine insane miles between you and another person. You can make a vow to never speak his name. You can surgically remove someone from your life. And still, he'll haunt you.

I drew it over my skin like a violins bow, No one would ever hear the song of my shame.