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Light bounces off his eyes, making them look like honeydew.
cute
And if there’s one thing I know, it’s that fear can bind you. Keep you away from the things that could very well fill your soul. The things that could heal you. We’re well acquainted, fear and I.
Ambrose looks at me, a flicker of something resembling affection there one second and gone the next. “Hummingbirds.”
this one almost got me
I’ve learned that disappointment is a by-product of expectation.
Because I want to be small again. I want to hide away and disappear into the crevices of these walls. The world is too expansive—its mouth is always opened wide and ready to swallow us whole.
felt that
like white on rice.
She’s a siren beckoning me toward the dark, murky waters and alarms sound off in my mind, but I still reply, “Sure.”
“Because you have things to say. And people should listen.”
AW
One thing I’ve learned since meeting him is that people don’t give kids enough credit. They’re inquisitive and thoughtful. Smarter than we think and often underestimated. They could probably teach us a lot if the world wasn’t so hellbent on convincing them they don’t know what they’re talking about.
“I don’t snore.”
SAME
When you feel nothing but complete emptiness inside. Hurt people can be dangerous people.
There’s nothing like it, being in the arms of the one you’re meant for. It’s like a gentle caress from the universe. A pause in the fabric of time and space as two people who are and will always be, throw their hands up and stop fighting the inevitable.
