So I’m alone. I have no one. Is that what you’re telling me?” - Junco, Range (to be published April 2013)

We are love in slow motion. We move as one, leaving the darkness behind, where it belongs, and become the light.

Well it's not really a mystery. It was the day I met you, that's when. You've changed me, Rook. You make me weak, you make me stumble, you make me fall, and even though I know you'll pick me up if I ask you to, it's not enough. I want you to make me stronger, just like I made you. I want it all or I want nothing. And since I can't have it all, I'll take nothing.

I'll ruin everything if you touch me. I'll ruin us. I'll ruin this. I'll ruin you, just like you said. I'll ruin you and I'll ruin your life. And I love you too much to ruin you. So I'm leaving.

I would rather kill her myself than let my father take her as a punishment in my cycle.Because that's what love is.Protection.

I cheated when I gifted Tier. And this makes me smile, because it was so easy and simple. And it was something my father never understood.Love is earned, not mandated.So I loved Tier back.Fiercely.

I felt like I was leaving a piece of my soul behind the moment I left. And every second that passes, I miss you like that, times a million.

But it's better to have bad options than no options. And people won't save you either, ya know.

He wasn’t that careful, Lucan. I think you’ve got him mixed up with someone else.”“He put a lot of effort into you. Not just as a soldier. But as a child. Why teach you that horse sport? Why teach you to play an instrument? Why give you a God? He took you to church? Every week?”I swallow and nod as my face begins to feel hot.“Men who want to kill their grandchildren don’t do those things, Junco.”FLIGHT ~ Chapter One

When I wake I ask myself, how much longer before they will just let me die?" - Tier, Clutch