Change is inevitable, though," he replied. "As is disappointment. Best to get used to it now.

I wanted to tell him so. Find the right words, string them together in the ideal way, knowing that here they would have the best chance of sounding perfect.

Editing is hard but nowhere NEAR as tough as facing that blank page and blinking cursor each day. You're all alone and no one else can do it. At least with editing you have someone in the trench with you.

If this was my instinct talking, I didn‟t want to hear what it was saying.

The health of the people I love is all that really matters in this world. Period.

I couldn't tell her. I couldn't tell anyone. As long as I didn't say it aloud, it wasn't real.

Despite our differences, we did have a history. No one understood where I was coming from the way he did.