5. "I am fighting, fighting, and I am making a self, in great pain, often, as for a birth, but it is right that is should be so, and I am being refined in the fires of pain and love." --Sylvia Plath ( Read more... )

6. "We all do things we desperately wish we could undo. Those regrets just become part of who we are, along with everything else. To spend time trying to change that, well, it's like chasing clouds." -- Libba Bray ( Read more... )

8. "Some things, however, are true no matter how hard you might try to block them out,
and a lie is always a lie, no matter how prettily told. Some doors, once they’re opened,
can never be closed again, just as some trust, once it’s been lost, can never be won back."
-Alice Hoffman

“We’re nearly ready.”  Samuel made the soft statement as though it were ( Read more... )

4. "Whether you want it to or not, time takes it all away, time bares it away. And in the end, there is only darkness. Sometimes we find others in that darkness, and sometimes we lose them there again." - Stephen King

Noah Bennet looked at his daughter like she knew something he didn’t.

As they gathered outside of Angela’s hospital room waiting for ( Read more... )

8. "My weakness was skinned over by your love. I knew when you healed me that the wound would open again, I knew it like destiny, and at the same time, I knew it as choice." -Jeanette Winterson“Are you ready to go ( Read more... )

9. "I laughed and said, life is easy. What I meant was, life is easy with you here, and when you leave, it will be hard again." -- miranda july

Flicking off the bathroom light, Claire walked quietly into the bathroom as she continued to rub the lotion between her fingers and over her hands.  Stepping over one giant sleeping dog and then a tiny one, ( Read more... )

"You try to warn him, you tell him
you will want to get inside him, and ruin him,
but he doesn't listen.
You do this, you do. You take the things you love
and tear them apart
or you pin them down with your body and pretend they're yours."
-Richard Siken
Maybe you’ve both been wrong this entire time.  Maybe everyone has been wrong about the whole situation ( Read more... )

5. "All the world will be your enemy, Prince With A Thousand Enemies, if they catch you, they will kill you... But first they must catch you." - Richard Adams

Even if Sylar swore he didn’t mean it the way it came out, he had been right in what he said.  He didn’t have a low profile, he never had but he had also never got caught before either.  It ( Read more... )

9. "The bad thing about falling to pieces is that it hurts. The good thing about it is that once you're lying there in shards there is nothing left to protect, and so you have no reason not to be honest."  -David James Duncan

"Please, no more.  I want to stop."  Claire pushed at the book, sliding it off of her lap in an irritated move.  She moved it ( Read more... )

3. Sometimes in love there's no simple fix. Sometimes you just have to hang on… and lead with your heart.  -  The Wonder Years

These are the things you don't plan for, not really or at least she sure as hell didn't.

She should be ashamed because she knew almost right away that something was wrong.  It lingered at the back of her mind even when Cain ( Read more... )