Loss takes up inside of everything sooner or later and eats right through it.
The hardest thing on earth is choosing what matters.
The time to assert one's right is when it's denied!
The world will give you that once in awhile, a brief timeout; the boxing bell rings and you go to your corner, where somebody dabs mercy on your beat-up life.
People, in general, would rather die than forgive. It's that hard.
It was the first time I'd ever said the words to another person, and the sound of them broke open my heart.