leave-behind

Grin is still beside me. His arms are hung tightly as his side and I take his hand. It is like touching stone and he turns stiffly toward me as we begin making our way back to where Rosso had camped the horses. We are both quiet but I know we were both thinking the same thing. That we wish we were out there and that we wish this wasn't happening at the same time. I suddenly feel the need to apologize to him too. It is because of me that his father and brothers are in this situation but that was their choice. When he looks at me, I can see forgiveness in his eyes. Neither of us have to speak to understand and neither of us look back at the people we leave behind.

When they want to leave, they accuse you with endless flaws.

In the space between yes and no, there is a lifetime. It__ the difference between the path you walk and one you leave behind; it__ the gap between who you thought you could be and who you really are; it__ the legroom for the lies you will tell yourself in the future.

A smart girl leaves before she is left

Death is number one on the list of things that we wish were possible to leave behind when we escaped barbarism.

Sometimes I wake up wanting to tell you to leave everything you claim to hold dear behind and be with me instead, but oftentimes I wake up wanting to tell you to go fuck yourself...

The best to do with a death was to move on from it.

You are whatever you shall leave behind when you leave life!

I hope that someday when I am gone, someone, somewhere, picks my soul up off of these pages and thinks, "I would have loved her.