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.

After all, once you know that part of something exists, it stands to reason that the rest of it is somewhere out there, too.

if you don't get sick, you won't get well.

We have been naive enough to believe that we were invincible; that we could run blind through the hairpin turns of life at treacherous speeds and never crash.

The answer is that there is no good answer. So as parents, as doctors, as judges, and as a society, we fumble through and make decisions that allow us to sleep at night--because morals are more important than ethics, and love is more important than law.

He rises over me, a second sun, and fills me with light and heat.

You live and let live, eventually that becomes enough.