This Is Where It Ends

by Marieke Nijkamp

but those rare moments when she talks about her mother are like the dawn, and when she opens up, she is the sun. I don’t want to see her hurt, but it’s still better than watching her erect walls around herself.

There is no way to express how a heart can burst and break at the same time, how the sun can cut through the darkness but will cast shadows everywhere.

You can’t always keep your loved ones with you. You can’t always settle your life in one place. The world was made to change. But as long as you cherish the memories and make new ones along on the way, no matter where you are, you’ll always be at home.”

We will remember them tomorrow. We will remember them for all our tomorrows. And there will be many tomorrows; there’ll be thousands of them. So let’s make them good ones.