“And if you share that humiliation, there’s the chance the person will use it against you at the first opportunity. Or they’ll cut you out of their life entirely. So how do you ever trust someone? Without giving them the power to destroy you?”

“Love is when you give someone else the power to destroy you, and you trust them not to do it.”

“Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you a chance to love you enough.”

“Trouble is a part of your life--if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you a chance to love you enough.”

“Somewhere someone is thinking of you. Someone is calling you an angel. This person is using celestial colors to paint your image. Someone is making you into a vision so beautiful that it can only live in the mind. Someone is thinking of the way your breath escapes your lips when you are touched. How your eyes close and your jaw tightens with concentration as you give pleasure a home. These thoughts are saving a life somewhere right now. In some airless apartment on a dark, urine stained, whore lined street, someone is calling out to you silently and you are answering without even being there. So crystalline. So pure. Such life saving power when you smile. You will never know how you have cauterized my wounds. So sad that we will never touch. How it hurts me to know that I will never be able to give you everything I have”

“There’s always someone or something that will make you feel so strongly that you will go against everything you are ever taught or planned.”