Loving Mr. Daniels

This was why I was the girl who lived in my books. The parties in the novels always seemed more entertaining.

“’When we are born, we cry that we are to come to this great stage of fools,’” I quoted from Shakespeare’s King Lear.

I never said it would be easy. I just said do it. Besides, the best things in life aren’t easy. They are tough, they are painful, and they are raw. That makes the arrival to the final destination that much sweeter.

Memories were scary, how they could break you with simply your own thoughts.

I wasn’t sure of it, but I was almost certain that loneliness was a disease. An infectious, disgusting illness that was slow to creep into your system and overtake you, even though you tried to fight it off the best you could.

Because pretending to be happy is almost like being happy. Until you remember that you’re only pretending. Then you’re sad. Really sad. Because wearing a mask every day of your life is the hardest thing to do. And after a while, you get a little scared because the mask becomes you.