Are those the only options? Nothing or forever?

Really, it had been stupid to expect anything anyway. A few late nights does not a habit, or a relationship, make.

Holding people away from you, and denying yourself love, that doesn't make you strong. if anything, it makes you weaker. Because you're doing it out of fear.

We can all be beautiful girls.

Every book teaches me something about my process, and they are all challenging in one way or another.

Everyone had a forever.

Times like this it did seem real I was leaving, and even more that my family, and this life, would go on without me. And again I felt that emptiness rise up, but pushed it away. Still, I lingered there, in the doorway, memorizing the noise. The moment. Tucking it away out of sight, to be remembered when I needed it most.