"I don't miss anyone. If I did I would do something about it. Besides, some people come back...in dreams. That's when they're honest."

"I have a deep appreciation for anything that challenges my morality. I tend to wonder which thing or person might overpower my beliefs and would I avoid it altogether in order to say, "It didn't conquer me," or would I accept the challenge head-on in an attempt to prevail? Which requires greater courage?"

"When he comes for her, it's only in her dreams where she has no control, no way to shut the door, and nowhere to run. That's when she listens."

"Good or bad, if you're not "normal, you can't have a normal relationship. If you are different, people will relate to you differently."

"She was asked, "What do you see in him?Taken aback, she replied, "What does he see in me?Others too wondered why she chose him " not as handsome as the others, not one with a lot of possessions or even status, but little did they know, as little minds go, that she chose the one who wanted her most."

"Obsession, when thoughts are held captive and no longer your own."

"He passed through her with his soul caressing hers goodbye. And in that final hour he was with her one last time."

"The spider's web: She finds an innocuous corner in which to spin her web. The longer the web takes, the more fabulous its construction. She has no need to chase. She sits quietly, her patience a consummate force; she waits for her prey to come to her on their own, and then she ensnares them, injects them with venom, rendering them unable to escape. Spiders " so needed and yet so misunderstood."

"Enchantment and fulfillment were on the gold and garnet horizon - autumn's breath, a dormant dream reawakened, a yearning nearly satiated, a tender thank you with a brush of the lips, and a connection as fingers touch and go hand in hand."

"It seems that the people who come into our lives and stay for the briefest amount of time have the greatest impact upon us. Time may change some things, but not all things. Each day brings me closer to him, and the age in which he passed from this world into the next, but I still fight the urge, on rare occasions, to pick up the phone and dial his number, which I still remember. It's decades later, but that last meal we shared, laughing and smiling at each other from across the table, lost in harmony, seems but yesterday. Then there was the last lingering look and the final wave goodbye."

"Don't allow someone not worth it to have the power to occupy your thoughts. If they don't find you worth the effort or the time, why should you waste yours?"

"Am I a friend or a prospect? Imagine how much kinder life would be if people put as much effort into befriending others instead of trying to sell them something."

"Truth and integrity must be so rare these days that it confuses people when they hear it."

"I am sick of old ghosts and I just want to feel safe again without the haunts of old vulnerabilities."

"Some writers are born. Others learn. I was born a writer but have a lot to learn."

"I shall not be defined by what I have suffered but how I have endured them."

"People like us are dead to society unless we're pretentious, tell people what they want to hear, take off our clothes, or pretend to be like them."

"Strangers were a fairytale full of possibilities not yet corrupted by reality while caregivers were the reality " and everything that couldn't be counted upon."

"Where are the memories that held us together? Where are the dreams that were yet to come? I'm afraid to be happy. I shouldn't be happy. If I'm happy without you does that mean I've told you goodbye?"

"Some men like shiny new toys. Others like the priceless antique."

"Anger met with anger only increases enmity rather than diffusing a tense situation. Anger, in turn, gives birth to hate. In such cases the wisest thing to do is not to engage through emotion. Emotions are self-centered and denying them spares animosity."

"Enemies are the people who think about you more than your friends do."

"You can shoo people away in real life, but not when they force their way in through the dream door."

"How different would people act if they couldn't show off on social media? Would they still do it?"

"I can't help it. You bring it out in me," he accused. "No," I said. "You're choosing to let me get to you. Don't. It's all in the mind."

"Don't start a fight if you can't duke it out. Either win or concede but whatever you do, don't have others fight for you."

"Fortuitous, unexpected beauty is the best beauty because it is unique, and what is unique is remembered."

"I'm not opposed to aging - even though society is kinder on men than women when it comes to getting old. How can I look at aging as the enemy? It happens whether I like it or not and no one is set apart from growing old; it comes to us all. Youth passes from everyone, so why deny it? I'm proud of my age. I'm proud that I've survived this planet for as long as I have, and should I end up withered, wrinkled and with a lifetime of great wisdom, I'll trade the few years of youth for the sophistication of a great mind...for however long it lasts."

"There are those that wonder which is worse: Not being able to reach out or not having anyone to reach for. There are some that ponder which is the greater ache: Not being able to tell or not having anyone that cares enough to ask. Perhaps it's not one person that is to blame, but both."

"Some families are an odd melting pot of strangers with the occasional offering of obligation."

"A friendship has but one chief adversary and that is envy. It is sired by resentment with the potential consequence of unresolved estrangement." She looked at the woman in conflict and said, "Do not envy her but imagine what it took for her to have what you resent her for. Would you want to embark upon her journey instead of your own to procure it? You notice her abundance but overlook her losses; do not envy her because she would rather have your friendship than your envy." The woman looked at her and nodded in accord, "And how do you do that?" she asked. The woman sighed in reflective thought. "By changing the way you think."

"It's not that I am "above" feeling hatred. It's that I make the choice whether to yield to it or not. Hatred keeps a person with you, and the last thing I want with me in my thoughts is someone who doesn't deserve to be there."

"You can't be in my world...You live in this one."

"How much pain a person detains may be proportionate to the pain they spare others when they'd rather hurt than hurt another."

"Some people are far more cognizant than others but sensitivity has its own cross to bear and ample insight, in many cases, can bring on disquietude."

"You've invaded my mind and I can't get you out of it," he accused with discernible disdain. She avoided looking at him and said, "Then you should forget." "Forget?" he thundered,"EVERYTHING reminds me of you!" She turned to confront him, slowing lifting her eyes to meet the disgust in his. "That's not my doing," she countered, "That's your doing and you are the only one who can control it."

"She has her helmet, shield and sword. Does she finish him or take pity on the gutless thing before her?Does she set fire and smoke him out, forcing him to fight, or does she let him live with himself and take satisfaction from knowing that he has never been in a real fight in his life and that one day he will have to face his demons in person, along with the consequences, and that both can be far more painful than anything she could ever do to him."

"The people you think are the happiest are usually the saddest; that's because they see more and feel deeper than others do. They are the sensitive and they see beyond the veil of what's tangible and what's not. They wear no masks and can see through the masks of others. The sensitive to life are few in number, which is why they feel so alone...because they are all alone."

"In a social media world, the danger is being overexposed and when something is overexposed it is no longer interesting...if ever it was."

"Why do people assume? If I hate you, I'll tell you. In this case, it's not hate. It's hurt. I'll lick my wounds, which only oozed because I gave a damn, and be over it before the sun rises."

"Emotions enthrall, but change, and as such have the ability to disrupt and destroy."

"If they don't walk away, we have to walk away, and sometimes we do it crying."

"Powerful words that penetrate the psyche are not forgotten while silence is."

"She's a sickness in my head.Then get well.What you feel is self-made and attended to over time. You want to let go but are unwilling to let go because you are getting something from it; An escape? An excuse? Bondage?You are idealizing another person, building up the idea of them, and making them a legend in your own mind.Is it really a sickness or something you can control?The question is: do you even want to?Each time a thought creeps into your mind, you choose whether to give it freedom to remain or to wander. You can rebuke it or replace it. After all, it's your mind."

"It's way too easy to see the real face of a person. They're amiable and full of pretense when they want something from you, but the minute you don't give in, back away or put yourself first (like they do) is the minute they show you who they really are."

"I challenge a man to a duel before allowing him near me, and then I take an arrow, dip it in poison, and drive it straight through his heart...But that's on a good day...when I purr and feel delightfully amorous. No need to mention what I'd do on a bad one."

"Intense feelings of any kind keep people with you. Some you may want, others you won't. To forget people, and you never really forget, feel indifference."

"She was told it was magnetism that kept them engaged, and how do you separate magnets? You force them apart."

"For those who have learned what suffering is early on, you have prepared ahead of the pack so that you can take care of the pack."

"The easiest way to get rid of bitterness is to spit it out. The easiest way to forget something noxious is to flush it. The easiest way to move on is to erase everything, and I do mean everything."