The Reunion

by Kiersten Modglin

I had everything I wanted, but somehow it all felt a bit lackluster. A dream is its shiniest when it’s still inside your head.

You don’t have to be the one throwing the flames in order to help spread the fire.”

You can’t trick your heart. You can’t convince it or reason with it or bribe it. It is what it is and we are what we are, and at the end of the day, the only reason we go through all we do is so that we can be happy, right?

But living in fear isn’t living.”

Don’t worry about anything. Just stop worrying. Stop thinking. And let yourself feel.

Kissing him was like coming home,

Isn’t it strange how the little things, the smallest memories and pieces of our childhood feel like they’re the only things cementing our past in place? As we get older and more and more things change, it’s as if we’re slowly losing our grip on a place we once occupied in the world.

The heart wants what it wants, Cait. Sometimes you just have to give in to it and let the world burn around you.”

My entire world had gone up in flames, and I was still holding the match.

A single move, a single choice, can change the course of your life completely.