The Splendid Adventure

“How right it is to love flowers and the greenery of pines and ivy and hawthorn hedges; they have been with us from the very beginning.”

"I've been looking for the light in the darkness, thinking that moonlight was a second skin. The words that wrap themselves around me spoke quietly, quickly, afraid of listening ears. My shadows were the place I hid, let no one in. And the sun, the "normal" the unattainable, the just beyond my reach and the unscathed were what I thought I needed. But to be nothing but light isn't normal. Your shadows will always be there below your skin. No matter how far you run, you have to know, they are the ruins that you've built upon, the candle in the darkness, the why did this happen, the reason you keep going when it hurts, and the 'How did you get to be so strong?' You've made it. This is what it's like to love yourself. Welcome home."