There is no before. There is only now, and what comes next.

Unhappiness is bondage; therefore, happiness is freedom. The way to find happiness is through the cure. Therefore, it is only through the cure that one finds freedom.

Take it from me: If you hear the past speaking to you, feel it tugging up your back and runing its fingers up your spine, the best thing to do-the only thing-is run.

That's the way I feel, at least: like there's a real me and a reflection of me, and I have no way of telling which is which.

Until, one day, she wasn’t.

Maybe, the hope said. Maybe.

And how she looked at me like I could save her from everything bad in he world. This was my secret: she was the one who saved me