Daisy Darker

by Alice Feeney

the secret to having it all is knowing that you already do.

Everyone’s life has uncharted waters—the places and people you didn’t quite manage to find—but when you feel as though you never will, it’s a special kind of sorrow. The unexplored oceans of our hearts and minds are normally the result of a lack of time and trust in the dreams we dreamed as children. But adults forget how to believe that their dreams might still come true.

Childhood is a race to find out who you really are, before you become the person you are going to be. Not everybody wins.

Doesn’t everyone wonder who they might have been if they weren’t who they were?

I’d rather be dead than normal.”

If you can’t find your way back to Happy, Navigate to the place you know as Less Sad.

The human heart beats eighty times a minute, one hundred thousand times a day, and about thirty-five million times a year. In an average lifetime, a heart will beat two and a half billion times.

“Don’t waste your life being sad about things you can’t change,”

I have always found fiction more attractive than real life.