You figured that the only way I'd be happy is if I did the things you thought would be best for me.

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

In my family, we seem to have a tortured history of not saying what we ought to and not meaning what we do.

In the end, though, I did not kill my sister. She did it all on her own. Or at least this is what I tell myself.

My mother used to tell me that when push comes to shove, you always know who to turn to. That being a family isn't a social construct but an instinct.

There are some dreams that get stuck between your teeth when you sleep, so that when you open your mouth to yawn awake they fly right out of you.

Shelby believed that love was like a solar eclipse - breathtakingly beautiful, absorbing, and capable of rendering you blind. She had not necessarily gone out of her way to avoid a relationship, but she hadn't wanted on either. It was called falling in love for a reason - because, inevitably, you crashed at the bottom.