Ashlee Willis

“Perhaps someday, when you are a father, Prince, you will understand how empty is your heart if your child is a hollow toy that you can move where you will him to be”

“Each step I take toward him is one more step closer to home.”

“Do not lose your heart," she said. What she did not tell me was that the surest way to lose it was to hold it tight.”

“They are faithful, even if we are not.”

“Yet something else trickles in between the cracks of this despairing thought. The hope of something to fill that emptiness. The hope that, perhaps, I have found it already. And suddenly hope is a thing alive, soaring in me. Its wings beat against my ribs, wild with the promise of joy.”