Alfa H

“Lost is not a place. It's a soul in paralysis... waiting to feel moved.”

“I didn't have to say a word. My love for him appeared upon my flesh like virgin tattooed skin.”

“Let them howl. Let the wolves pant. You have evolved. You were not fashioned to run in a pack, or to be defined by the opinions of those who wish to limit your creativity. Let them howl. Let the wolves pant.”

“She tells everyone she's taken. Yet her heart whispers: he's taking too long.”

“I am vulnerability under scarred skin. Numbness crawling behind wine soaked lips. A cocoon of grief battling a chest full of hushed breaths, longing to escape the mod-podge of memories, that journal where I've been. Layer after layer they are sealed upon my person, encapsulating time in a vessel that has sailed one too many shores.”

“We are the kind of Love Story that keeps souls awake at night and causes hearts to have stage fright.”

“You think it's easy to forget someone who made you look forward to tomorrow... And I hope you never experience convincing a paralyzed heart to keep on beating when it simply wants to die.”

“... And one day it dawned on me that I had spent entirely too much time waiting on you to grow a voice box.... and the balls to use it.”

“If you only knew how many sentences I have withheld in hopes that I will be allowed to speak them into your heart one day.”

“I have waltzed with wolves and howled at the moon. But my heart will always remember the slow-dance that ended much too soon.”

“That you were able to walk away, gives me my answer as plain as day.”

“I wear the words we didn't say. My heart is clothed in them every day.”

“Just because she doesn't talk about it, doesn't mean she isn't feeling it. She hurts, but she won't wear it on her sleeve. She will never let an illness, a diagnosis, or a prediction, define her. She doesn't want sympathy, because that type of attention is not her goal. She'd rather you see the woman who smiles in the face of adversity, than be the one who begs you to see her frown.”

“She's fire...but she will not burn you. She knows all too well how it feels to live with ashes.”

“She'd been taking care of others for so long that she scarcely recognized herself when she looked in the mirror.”

“How is it that hearts hold on to memories with the strength of hope and possibilities.”

“Love yourself. That kind of love can get you through anything.”

“I have no doubt that Taylor Swift will call one day after suffering writers block: "Alfa, I was told that you were the person to call." I gotcha girlfriend.”

“There are days when my imagination in my enemy. It likes to keep me company in my darkest of times and romanticizes a past that was more of a horror story than a fairytale.”

“I did not willingly let half of my soul leave my body. It was torn from me. I still hear the ransomed moans. It calls to me for rescue, yet clings to its abductor.”