She’d lost too much of herself in parenthood to simply go back to who she’d been before.
“My biggest discovery was that you can literally re-create your life. You can redefine it. You don’t have to live in the past. I found that not only did I have fight in me, I had love. By the time we clicked, I had had enough therapy and enough friendship and enough beautiful moments in my life to know what love is and what I wanted my life to feel and look like. When I got on my knees and I prayed to God for Julius, I wasn’t just praying for a man. I was praying for a life that I was not taught to live, but for something that I had to learn. That’s what Julius represented.”
― Finding Me
― Finding Me
“Sometimes I think it’s best not to chase after things. Sometimes all we can do is let them go and hope they come back on their own.”
― Enchantra
― Enchantra
“I want to know everything. I want to see all the darkest corners of your mind.” He tilted his face up to whisper his next words right into her ear. “I want to taste your sins.”
― Phantasma
― Phantasma
“Perhaps one day, she said, there would be a safer time. When women could walk the earth, shining bright with power, and yet live.”
― Weyward
― Weyward
“You were everything I never knew I wanted. You were chaos. You were desperation. You were the most mysterious secret I’d ever come across. Everything about you drew me in—your innocence, your vulnerability, hell, even your tragic life. You were the most captivating creature I’d ever met.”
― A Strange Hymn
― A Strange Hymn
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