Your sense of guilt will linger. It will always be part of you. but sharing it, allowing people to love you anyway, will do you the world of good. Secrets need an outlet if they are not to fester and become an unbearable burden.

Sometimes now was enough. Sometimes it was everything.

The suffering of a loved one was in many ways worse than one's one suffering because it left one feeling so very helpless.

The bad part is life continues. The good part is that the pain goes away.

But a mother-son relationship is not a coequal one, is it? He is lonely with only you just as you are lonely with only him.

Why do I want to run from happiness?

I do not admire greatness that has no substance.