It all depends on how you choose to live it. It's like forever, always changing.

But I think, personally, that it would be worse to have been alone all that time. Sure, maybe I would have protected my heart from some things, but would that really have been better? To hold myself apart because I was too scared that something might no be forever?

She stroked my hair and told me I was beautiful, but I was old enough by then to know not to believe it anymore.

If someone is really close with you, your getting upset or them getting upset is okay, and they don't change because of it. It's just part of the relationship. It happens. You deal with it.

If you expect the worst, you'll never be disappointed.

Not for the first time, I wished both of us could just say what we meant. But that, like so much else, was impossible

Your actions is like a raindrop; it falls into the pond making ripples and then its over.