Flawed (Gamer Girls, #1)

by Auryn Hadley

What he found was a poem by Shane Koyczan called Instructions for a Bad Day. The last paragraph made him read it twice. Everyone knows pain. We are not meant to carry it forever. We were never meant to hold it so closely, so be certain in the belief that what pain belongs to now will belong soon to then. That when someone asks you, "how was your day," realize that for some of us – it's the only way we know how to say, "Be calm. Loosen your grip, opening each palm, slowly now – let go."

"And she is not her past. It shaped her, but it doesn't own her."

Together, they were doing this, and Dez was pretty sure that was what love was all about.