How to Survive Your Murder

by Danielle Valentine

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, “I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.” You must do the thing you think you cannot do. —Eleanor Roosevelt

No matter how well you know the rules, no matter how smart you think you are, you’re never prepared for your life to turn into a horror movie.

I don’t have even the slightest idea what “okay” feels like anymore, but I’m going to keep moving and thinking and talking, and I guess that’s close enough.

I heard somewhere that people say “I can’t imagine” only about things they can imagine perfectly and wish they couldn’t.