Drawn Together

by Juliana Smith

I learned long ago that it's far better to stand alone with integrity than be surrounded by people who don’t even like who you are at your core.

How rude of her, Fletcher thought. To come barreling into his life right when he was starting to figure things out, just to turn them all back upside down again.

I would argue that the loneliest sound in the world is the symphony of laughter one door over.

“I know now what words can do. My whole career I’ve used words so carelessly in everything I have written and put out for the world to read as their own interpretation. But, I never realized just how powerful the tongue is until Ryan was gone. How every letter and every word and every sentence is shaping up someone else's life.”