~~When life offers you a dream so far beyond any of your expectations, it’s not reasonable to grieve when it comes to an end.

~~ Isn’t it supposed to be like this? The glory of first love, and all that. It’s incredible, isn’t it, the difference between reading about something, seeing it in the pictures, and experiencing it?

~~“I am not pretty. I am not beautiful. I am as radiant as the sun.”

~~I stare in the mirror as I try to remember who I am and who I am not.