Laura Wiess

knowing deep inside some ghosts are too cruel to question

What's the point of obsessing over cholesterol or bike helmets or even cigarettes when the biggest threats to our children are being released back into society every day? Yes, maybe 'some' of them have reformed, but what about the ones who haven't? Doesn't anyone realize that one 'touch', one 'time' will destroy a child's life ten times faster than a pack-a-day habit?

All you really have...is now.

It's just that instead of erupting and annihilating our tormentors, we destroy ourselves instead.

See, guys freak out. They hit critical mass and blast nuclear, white-hot anger out over the world like walking flamethrowers. But girls freak in. They absorb the pain and bitterness and keep right on sponging it up until they drown.

Time is not your friend. It doesn't care if you live fast or die slow, if you are or if you aren't. It was here before you arrived and it will go on after you leave. Time doesn't care who wins or who loses, if your life span is full or empty, honorable or shameful. Time is indifferent. It simply doesn't give a shit.

My biggest mistake is in believing there are limits to how bad it can get.

In my family, you can rot to hell on the inside as long as you__e flawless on the outside, which is really sick, but also hard to unlearn.