Wallah:

"The star-shaped morning glory is symbolic of a single day each year in which the Chinese lovers, Chien Niu and Chih Neu, are allowed to meet. According to Chinese lore, Chien Niu was a boy star who was entrusted to take care of water buffalo in the heavenly kingdom. A girl star named Chih Neu was put in charge of seamstress duties. They fell in love, and the romance caused them to neglect their duties. In anger, God forced the young lovers to be separated on both sides of the Silver River and allowed then to meet only once during the whole year...The morning glory is aptly named, as the flower blooms in the morning and dies by the afternoon."

It had begun.

It hurt a lot.

It was still hurting a lot.

It still hurt a lot. But it was done and beautiful. I guess I should say is beautiful. I feel pretty vain, I keep looking at myself in the mirror.

...LOVE...

"Writing is a means of carving order from chaos, of challenging one's own beliefs and assumptions, of facing the world with eyes and heart wide open. Through writing, we declare a personal identity... and we find purpose and beauty and meaning." 

-Jack Heffron

"Sometimes remembering will lead to a story, which makes it forever. That's what stories are for. Stories are for joining the past to the future. Stories are for those late hours in the night when you can't remember how you got from where you were to where you are. Stories are for eternity, when memory is erased, when there is nothing to remember except the story.

-Tim O'Brien

the truth about my nose dreams,

they ruin my real world.

For you see, sometimes I have these very real, vivid dreams. In them I get a nose job, and I am pretty. And I am happy. And boys like me for more than my body. And everything is peachy. Like, really peachy.

Then I wake up.

...

"You are capable of much more than just being looked at."

May this quote effect more than just me. We women need to get this in our heads!

one of those nights.

“I’m going to smile and make you think I’m happy, I’m going to laugh, so you don’t see me cry, I’m going to let you go in style, and even if it kills me- I’m going to smile”