I just have to be super strong when it comes to my work time. Shut the browser, ignore the email alerts, and just WRITE.

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.

I'd still thought that everything I thought about that night-the shame, the fear-would fade in time. But that hadn't happened. Instead, the things that I remembered, these little details, seemed to grow stronger, to the point where I could feel their weight in my chest. Nothing, however stuck with me more than the memory of stepping into that dark room and what I found there, and how the light then took that nightmare and made it real.

Eventually, it wasn't even your dad I wanted, just anybody. Anybody at all.

And to know me, as you have discovered, is to love me.

Sometimes it seems safer to hold it all in, where the only person who can judge is yourself.

But if something was really important, fate made sure it somehow came back to you and gave you another chance.