How could I not have seen this coming, when I looked into your eyes and vowed to be with you forever?

You can stay up all night and still not count all the ways to lose the people you love.

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.

In the space between yes and no, there's a lifetime. It's the difference between the path you walk and the one you leave behind; it's the gap between who you thought you could be and who you really are; its the legroom for the lies you'll tell yourself in the future.

At 17, the smallest crises took on tremendous proportions; someone else's thoughts could take root in the loam of your own mind; having someone accept you was as vital as oxygen. Adults, light years away from this, rolled their eyes and smirked and said, 'This too shall pass' - as if adolescence was a disease like chicken pox, something everyone recalled as a milk nuisance, completely forgetting how painful it had been at the time.

Add love, and all the lines between right and wrong were bound to disappear.

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.