An item that looks perfectly normal on the surface might only be disguised.

I think people do things all the time in the name of love that they shouldn't be doing - such is the nature of us.

It doesn't take a whole long life to realize that what we deserve to have, we rarely get.

Maybe I was naïve to think that silence was implicit complacence, instead of a festering question. Maybe I was silly to believe that friends owed each other anything.

Life isn't nearly as stable as we want it to be.

Do you know how, when you are on the verge of a breakdown, the world pounds in your ears; a rush of blood, of consequence? Do you now how it feels when the truth cuts your tongue to ribbons, and still you have to speak it?

If you read a book that's fiction and you get caught in the characters and the plot, and swept away, really, by the fiction of it - by the non-reality - you sometimes wind up changing your reality as well. Often, when the last page is turned, it will haunt you.