I could practically hear the unspoken ‘good girl’ accompanied by a pat and scratch behind my ears like I was his obedient pet.

Spider or gum? Spider or gum? I thought quickly trying to come up with a believable excuse when I blurted out, “I swallowed a spider!” What? I swallowed a spider? What the hell is wrong with me?!

I threw my hand over my mouth and blurted out the first best excuse I could come up with, “Morning breath!

We were walking that tightrope between friends and something more...

I was spinning—from the kiss, the alcohol or the lack of air, I wasn’t sure, but I knew I needed to pull away if only just to breath.

My fingers itched to touch, my lips begged to taste and my body buzzed with a frenzied energy, but my mind screamed to move far away from him fast.

depression is not a side effect of cancer. Depression is a side effect of dying.

One of the worst times to give up on yourself is when you are surrounded by negative circumstances. Your life is too precious to ever allow it to become a prisoner to trials and tribulations.

Beauty may be only skin deep but the judgments founded on it ten to go a lot deeper, whether we wished they would or not.

We're all in this together ... alone.

Let there be truth between us.

A man's own good breeding is the best security against other people's ill manners.

Yeah, ideally, I'd probably wish to be more anonymous. But scrutiny and success go together. And I want to be successful.

LOVE is what gives joy to giving joy.

Time is, of all modes of existence, most obsequious to the imagination.

The nearer I approach the end, the plainer I hear around me the immortal symphonies of the worlds which invite me. It is marvelous, yet simple.