“Is it destiny that I'm writing to you when there's so many people I could be writing to?” WritingDestinyLetters Book:Slow Dancing with The Stars Source: Slow Dancing with The Stars
“Everyone deals with life differently and that's okay. Some of us build, some of us burn. In the end, we are all just trying to survive, aren't we?” Life And LivingSurvivalGrief And Survival Book:Slow Dancing with The Stars Source: Slow Dancing with The Stars
“A treacherous cycle of forgetting. Still, when she says, "next time, we'll have more time to hang out", I know she means to say, "I'll continue to miss you far longer than I've known you",” ForgettingRememberingChildhood Memories Book:October Defined: an anthology of verse Source: October Defined: an anthology of verse
“Some nights the kitchen is haunted by your feet and the ghosts of your tears, you look at the grill lining the window and grieve for open skies open arms a childhood still out of reach.” PoetryGriefChildhood Book:October Defined: an anthology of verse Source: October Defined: an anthology of verse
“I'm sorry," you wrote in a diary I discovered at 11, "I'm sorry I did this to you." But how could you have known that sorrow has a way with the womb? How could you have known that blood left scars that ran deeper than love could ever heal?” ChildrenRegretMotherhood Book:October Defined: an anthology of verse Source: October Defined: an anthology of verse
“Remember, Tori, not all of us burn. Some of us simply break and rebuild.” Grief And LossBurnBuilding Trust Book:Slow Dancing with The Stars Source: Slow Dancing with The Stars
“How do you console someone who doesn't want to be consoled? Sammy says to do it subtly, but I have never been subtle. If anything, I am obvious: I fill rooms and suffocate people with my presence, skin pressed up on all fall walls until you know nothing but me.” Grief And LossConsole Book:Slow Dancing with The Stars Source: Slow Dancing with The Stars
“Sometimes I wish we could choose our own names, that way we could all carry something of our own, childishly our own, forever.” NamesGiven Name Book:Slow Dancing with The Stars Source: Slow Dancing with The Stars
“I want to look at him and think, 'I'd burn cities to keep you warm', better yet I want to think, 'I'd plant forests to keep you alive'.” LoveMarriageCodependence Book:October Defined: an anthology of verse Source: October Defined: an anthology of verse