Because even if the lie is beautiful, the truth is what you face in the end.

I like the idea of something greater than us. We destroy things with our curiosity. We shatter with our best intentions. We are no closer to perfection than we were one hundred years ago, or five hundred.

I shake my head, watching snow tumble and swirl from an all-white sky. The world seems so clean if you only look up

I never wanted to live forever," she says. "I just wanted enough time.

When we were first married, I thought he must have been the most heartless, hateful man I'd ever known, but he was just as much a prisonor as I was. Where Vaughn imprisoned me with walls, he imprisoned his son with ignorance.

A strange thing, words. Once they're said, it's hard to imagine they're untrue.

Set fire to the broken pieces; start anew.