“Defiance may be the roughest path to beauty but, unfortunately, often it is the only path.”

“I have the cedar box safely tucked away in my bedroom closet, but its ghosts follow me about the house, distracting me from my work, interrupting my train of thought, pulling at my limbs and hair, whispering gossip in my ear.”

“The air has a voice and it whispers trouble, trouble.”

“Even now I steal outdoors in the dead of night to sit on the tree swing and watch the shadows breathe in the moonlight.”

“Do I love you because you're beautiful, or are you beautiful because I love you?”

“I often lose motivation, but it's something I accept as normal.”

“How can it be wrong? Love picks the right path, not the one of least resistance.”