Talon (Ashes & Embers, #4)

by Carian Cole

Sometimes what we think we want is not at all what we actually need."

I'll take sticks and stones any day over these words. Words do hurt. They echo in your mind, then bounce off your brain before falling down the hole into your heart to slowly leak into your gut, eating at you slowly over time.

This is just a pause. I'll be okay. Not today. Maybe not tomorrow. But I will be. Someday. It won't always be this bad. This pain isn't my forever. This is just a pause. There's more waiting for me, somewhere, down the road of my life.