Finding Eden

by Mia Sheridan

"I'm all your firsts," I whispered, "and all your lasts."

"I want my home to be your home, my bed to be your bed. I want your nighttime heat to be within arm's reach."

everyone deserves a love story that doesn't hurt."

Sometimes it seemed so much of the beauty in life resulted from the ugly. And how did you make sense of such things? How could you be thankful for something when so much suffering was necessary to bring it to you? Or was that the very thing that defined real beauty–light after darkness? And maybe that was the whole point. If you constantly sought beauty in the most obvious places, in only the brightest of circumstances, perhaps you weren't really looking for it at all.

"Sometimes tragic and awful can be funny, too. Sometimes it has to be."

even though life could be horrifying and earth-shattering, terrible and tragic, it was also filled with moments of breathtaking beauty. And sometimes you just had to laugh.