Secrets

Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end
—Semisonic

You know what it’s like having a child?” her mother once said to her, when Kenzie was eight. She’d asked to sleep over at her best friend Becca’s house. “It’s like your heart walking out the door on two legs, vulnerable and unprotected. It’s scary as hell

Men wreck their own homes

he understands that every person is the result of everything they’ve ever been through.

heir families are their priorities. And you’re not family

She knows from experience that humans can only tolerate intense emotional pain for so long before things begin to dull

they didn’t protect their children. As parents, above all else, that’s the one fucking thing they’re obligated to do.