“I close my eyes and black out the day. The exhaustion of living through it, surviving.”

“I close my eyes and I can see a better day. I close my eyes and pray”

“The her that lived in her looked out through her eyes, through my eyes, and at the me that lives in me.”

“A woman is more beautiful than the world in which I live; and so I close my eyes. ”

“I close my eyes, take a deep breath, and let it out completely, along with my soul.”

“Love is excruciating, especially when you can feel it slipping through your fingers and there is nothing you can do about it. Like someone was playing tug-of-war with my limbs, ripping to shreds whatever was left behind. What it would feel like when love was lost...I wouldn't survive that. I closed my eyes willing the tears to stay hidden behind my eyelids and focusing on breathing in and out instead of the pain that was ramming in my heart.”