Five Winters

by Kitty Johnson

Everyone was vulnerable beneath the surface. Some people just hid it better than others.

“I’m not sure love can be trusted anyway. Well, not love, but the whole being-in-love thing. Not if it means you can’t really see a person. Because you need to be able to really see a person, don’t you? To judge whether you’ve got a good future together or not?”

Don’t let life happen to you. Have a long, hard think about what you want and a long, hard look at what you’ve got, and see what syncs. Okay?”

Maybe we needed all that wrong stuff, all that life, to get to this perfect moment.”