This Is Not How It Ends

by Rochelle B. Weinstein

“You don’t always have to physically go somewhere to experience something magical.”

“You should know that being alone doesn’t make a person lonely. It’s being around the wrong people.”

There comes that moment when you’re holding someone and the pieces of you just fit. Words are useless. The parts of you string together—souls touch through gentle fabric—and when you separate, you both know there’s a lingering strand that forever connects.

I don’t have time. None of us have time. We only have moments. Strung on a string that can break at any minute.”

Abandonment leaves a painful mark. It inks you for life, if you let it, making you believe you’re not worthy, leaving you distrustful of wishes and dreams, when they only disappoint.