Sunday, January 6, 2019

You Can't Skip Chapters

"You can't skip chapters, 
 that's not how life works. 
 You have to read every line, 
 meet every character. 
 You won't enjoy all of it. 
 Hell, some chapters will make you cry for weeks. 
 You will read things you don't want to read, 
 you will have moments when you don't want the pages to end. 
 But you have to keep going. 
 Stories keep the world revolving. 
 Live yours, don't miss out." 

 --Courtney Peppernell


Forgive Me for Wanting to Soothe

  Sometimes a wound must stay a wound. —James Crews, “Wound”     Sometimes I remember a wound must stay a wound. Why then,  this impulse to ...