There is no place so AWAKE and ALIVE as the edge of becoming.

When he spoke, the roughness was gone from his voice. "I could tell you I did it. That's what you wanna hear. I could tell you she did it to herself, but both ways I'd be lying. It was you who did it, Lily. You didn't mean it, but it was you.

The body knows things a long time before the mind catches up to them. I was wondering what my body knew that I didn't.

I wondered what it was like to be inside her, just a curl of flesh swimming in the darkness, the quiet things that had passed between us.

Whatever else you do, listen to your Deepest Self. Love Her and be true to Her, speak Her truth, always.

It only meant that my natural inclination was to draw my "energy" from within instead of seeking it outside myself, plus my mom was an introvcert, and so were a lot of normal people. The problem was I was shy on top of that. And we all know how the world loves a shy introvert.

Most people don't have any idea about all the complicated life going on inside a hive. Bees have a secret life we don't know anything about.