What in the world could this family have done to deserve a fate such as this?

Could a scar be like the rings of a tree, reopened with each emotional season?

But sometimes the scars go too deep and the stories are too personal to share.

Instead of a criminal or a drug addict, I was looking at a boy—just a boy.

We are brilliant shades of light, we can not be contained"-Boys of the Fatherless-

I’ll be like Esther. Your daughter.”“You ain’t that strong.

Do I look like I want to be involved in your teen love saga? Ask someone who cares.

It's sad that bad things have to happen in order for us to stop and look around.

I wonder if he’d been as beautiful as Dante. And I wondered why I thought that.

I’m tired of justifying why I love someone. I’m done with the explaining.

I was not much used to women except for mothers. Everything I did, they did different.

My name is Arianna Morganna Brittany DuLac--you can imagine why I went by the name Ryan.

Cry your guts out because nothing is sadder than an adult who forgets how to be a child.

At times, it felt so odd being with a man in such an intimate way who was not my husband.

We can change in one day. We can fall in love in one day. Anything can happen in one day.