A duck walks into a bar and the bartender asks, what'll it be? The duck doesn't answer because it's a duck.

Just because you didn't speak the facts out loud didn't erase their existence. Silence was just a quieter way to lie.

Grief is a curious thing, when it happens unexpectedly. It is a Band-aid being ripped away, taking the top layer off a family. And the underbelly of a household is never pretty, ours no exception.

You’ll tell yourself anything you have to, to pretend that you’re still the one in control.

The thing that most people didn't understand, if they weren't in his line if work, was that a rape victim and a victim of a fatal accident were both gone forever. The difference was that the rape victim still had to go through the motions of being alive.

There were some people who hit your life so hard, they left a stain on your future.

Is it because they are so comfortable, they already know what the other is thinking? Or is it because after a certain point, there is simply nothing left to say?