The Black Notebook

by Isabelle Snow

Drop that book of yours, stop dreaming of another person’s adventure, and come have your own with me.”

It’s amazing how one person can change everything around you. They can turn your storms into sunshine and make your empty gray canvas a bright array of colors and light. And when you’re with that one person who has your heart in their hands, everything’s just perfect. Until it’s not anymore.

“Sometimes your heart just can’t easily accept what your mind can. You know something’s wrong and yet your heart still dares to beg otherwise.”

Sometimes when you’ve been pushed too far by life, it gets harder and harder to believe that anything good will happen to you. You think that it’s foolish to hope and you’re stuck in suspension, stranded between the lines of waiting for things to get worse and desperately wishing that your circumstances were different. But in actuality, it’s not at all foolish to hope; it’s just ridiculous to expect.

“Love…sometimes, it isn’t as nice as it sounds. It can push you to do the worst kind of things to people, even the ones you care about. It frightens you to the point where all you think you can do to defend yourself is to hurt others.”