Hello Stranger

by Jade West

The glass is always half full in my world, even when there’s no water left to drink. After all, you still have the glass there ready for some more…

Reading time was the only time I ever truly allowed myself. The only time I slipped out of my own world into someone else’s and left the heaviness of mine behind. My only escape.

Definitely how I felt daily after my shifts at the hospital, especially when a patient got their wings.

“All those nights it was me holding you, the strength in your storm when you were just a tiny little boy, and now you’re the strength in mine. You’re doing a damn good job of it, darling.”

I’d never belonged anywhere like I belonged in his arms, and I knew it. I felt it with every single scrap of my soul.

as many of those moments as you can, because they never come twice, my love.”

“One tiny second of joy is worth a lifetime without it,”

Absolutely beautiful.