How many times would I throw this away before I realized it was what I had been looking for all along?

There are always sides. There is always a winner and a loser. For every person who gets, there's someone who must give.

But as he grew older, he learned that a word was a powerful thing. An insult didn't have to be shouted to bleed; a vow didn't have to be whispered to make you believe. Hold a thought in your head, and that was enough to change the actions of anyone and anything that crossed your path.

A fire can't burn forever. Eventually, it consumes itself.

Lately, I have been having nightmares, where I'm cut into so many pieces that there isn't enough of me to be put back together.

I know that there will be other women, but they couldn't compare. Maybe I'll change, maybe love will change, but I think we were a once-in-a-lifetime. You could never leave me; that's why I am not more upset. You can't possibly break these feelings. They stretch, and they last.

And that was the greatest heartbreak of all- no matter how spectacular we want our children to be, no matter how perfect we pretend they are, they are bound to disappoint. As it turns out, kids are more like us than we think: damaged, through and through.