What if the one I choose to discount is one who has been truly hurt?

be a good listener, don't judge and don't put boundaries on someone else's grief.

Infatuation's just another word for not seeing clearly. When you start to love a person- that's when they become real

I close my eyes, thinking that there is nothing like an embrace after an absence, nothing like fitting my face into the curve of his shoulder and filling my lungs with the scent of him.

Can you imagine what it would be like to know that your life was just going to be a series of days that were all the same, that were do-overs?

When you finally start to write something, do not let yourself stop...even when you are convinced it's the worst garbage ever. This is the biggest caveat for beginning writers. Instead, force yourself to finish what you began, and THEN go back and edit it.

At home I was raped by a guy i thought I loved' Trixie said, because thats what it was to her and always would be.