Swear on This Life

For my Em. Don’t wait this long. Come let me love you.

For my Em. Don’t wait this long. Come let me love you.

there was a scared little girl inside of me who couldn’t accept the fact that someone actually loved her enough to write an entire book to help her heal.

Love was such a key ingredient in molding humans

I vowed never to hurt him in that way.

You’re all I have left. You’re holding my whole world together, Em.

and it made me feel good. There were actually people in the world who wished they had daughters.

“I hope it’s everything you want it to be.”

We can’t always control our circumstances, who our parents are, where we live, or how much money we make, but in those rare moments when we can shape our fate, when we do have the power to make our own happiness, we can’t be too scared to do it.

“This could be the best thing for us, after it stops being the worst.”