Just because something is unspoken doesn't mean that it disappears.

When I walk, I walk with you. Where I go, you're with me always.

Helplessness and anger make for predictable behavior: Children are certain to shove each other and pull hair, teenagers will call each other names and cry, and grown women who are sisters will say words so cruel that each syllable will take on the form of a snake, although such a snake often circles in on itself to eat its own tail once the words are said aloud.

Run your fingers through my soul. For once, just once, feel exactly what I feel, believe what I believe, perceive as I perceive, look, experience, examine, and for once; just once, understand.

Still, she knows one thing for certain: never judge a relationship unless you are the one wrapped up in its arms.

You want to know what love is? Its the thing that ruins you.