The choices you make now, the people you surround yourself with, they all have the potential to affect your life, even who you are, forever.

It was amazing how you could get so far from where you'd planned, and yet find it was exactly were you needed to be.

You didn't have to take a punch for me, you know,' he said. 'I'm a lover, not a fighter.' 'You're a freak is what you are,' I said.

Who says there has to be a point?" He asked. "Or a reason. Maybe it's just something you have to do.

There's this other half of him I don't know of, it's like he is trying to keep it a secret... if he would just let me inside so I can help.

Because this is what happens when you try to run from the past. It just doesn’t catch up, it overtakes … blotting out the future.

And so, while the rest of the world went on unaware, drinking their coffee, reading the sports page, and picking up their dry cleaning, I leaned forward and kissed Dexter, making a choice that would change everything. Maybe somewhere there was a ripple, a bit of jump, some small shift in the universe, barely noticeable. I didn’t feel it then. I felt only him kissing me back, easing me into the sunlight as I lost myself in the taste of him and felt the world go on, just as it always had, all around us.