I’d rather meander through a pit of vipers than love one more person, but since I’m on the subject of snakes, we all know one, or are one.

People don’t want words, as seductive, pleasant and warming as they can be. People want to see that they’re worth some sacrifice or some great deed. And it’s not that people are always worth it,...

Neither one of them could turn off their feelings, even with so much time and distance between them. The more they were apart, and the more they weren’t allowed to be together, the more they...

Some people are far more cognizant than others but sensitivity has its own cross to bear and ample insight, in many cases, can bring on disquietude.

Speaking of happiness, those distinctive moments are found outdoors – in the fall, in the winter and always in the mountains where people are few, wildlife is abundant and there is peace in the quiet.

Masks are elaborate and everyone has one. It takes a while to get to know people. This doesn’t make them mysterious, it makes them like everyone else.

Regret is her companion and the one who whispers to her often. She has even let hope die and that brings about despair.

The worst feeling when speaking with someone or receiving a gift from them is knowing they feel obligated to.

The air is cold and dusk has descended. In the distance lightning flickers and a far away rumble of thunder awakens my thoughts and makes me remember.

Don’t start a fight if you can’t duke it out. Either win or concede but whatever you do, don’t have others fight for you.

If I never shed a tear or wondered what happened to someone I actually loved, what makes you believe I’d think twice about you, someone I never even cared for?

How different would people act if they couldn’t show off on social media? Would they still do it?

I don’t miss anyone. If I did I would do something about it. Besides, some people come back…in dreams. That’s when they’re honest.

Power, a paycheck and control do sick things to those who have the illusion of possessing it.

Who hasn’t been told “love you?” I don’t put much stock in such words because it’s the “I” that gives “love you” its true essence and intimate meaning, so unless someone can bring themselves to...

Reassuring a jealous woman that you don’t want her man creates the bigger beast of resentment because that tells her that what she has isn’t desirable and to her, where the opinions of others correlates...

I must be out of my mind if I loved you in spite of everything you’ve done, and anyone else would condemn you for it, but I can’t condemn you at all. In my own...

I appreciate the beauty and balm of flowers but I have never enjoyed receiving them because then I have to watch them die, and worse…throw them away.

When I say I’m going to forget you I know it’s impossible to forget someone I once knew. What I want is to erase you from my thoughts and purge you from my memories. I’m...

The people you think are the happiest are usually the saddest; that’s because they see more and feel deeper than others do. They are the sensitive and they see beyond the veil of what’s tangible...

Some men like shiny new toys. Others like the priceless antique.

Evil spawns mayhem while benevolence repairs; doing good comforts the living while prayers are extended to the one who attends to the dead.

Has it tortured you as much as it’s tortured me?” He asked. “Don’t call it torture when it’s self-inflicted. You always have a choice.

I always welcomed the comforting cloak of night except for the times when I lost something in it.

You may not like what I see but I don’t like what you do.

The agony of the empath is feeling their pain but being unable to save them from it.

I think anyone who opened their heart enough to love without restraint and subsequently were devastated by loss knows that in that moment you are forever changed; a apart of you is no longer whole....

Three kinds of people get talked about: The fascinating, the freaks and the nefarious.

The only time she has anything resembling a life is when she sleeps because when she sleeps she can dream.

Emotions have cycles whereas love endures. Some people confuse emotions, which are ever-changing, with love’s durability.

Instead of being proud that you led someone to God, be more concerned with the person you pushed away from Him.

Sometimes you grow to love the shadow that follows.

She has her helmet, shield and sword. Does she finish him or take pity on the gutless thing before her?Does she set fire and smoke him out, forcing him to fight, or does she let...

Followers, followers. Sometimes, with some things, it’s best to keep your tally down.

You can shoo people away in real life, but not when they force their way in through the dream door.

So what if you’re plain? Anyone can like a beautiful woman or a handsome man. That’s easy. But power is the ability to inspire attraction without the obvious.

While it is good to apologize and ask forgiveness from God, it’s just as important (perhaps more so) to extend it towards the person you wronged. Becoming a better person or trying to make amends...

I don’t make people comfortable but that’s what couches are for.

The writer in her went silent and hid when her revealing words were wide-spread read.

Steam rising underneath a canopy of whispering, changing aspens; starlight in the clear, dark night, and wondrous beauty in every direction. If only all could feel this way, to be so captured and enthralled with...

She sat there reading; cool, calm and collected. “You could ruin his life with that information,” her friend reported triumphantly. The woman sighed, clearly annoyed at being interrupted. “If I did he would never forget...

It’s way too easy to see the real face of a person. They’re amiable and full of pretense when they want something from you, but the minute you don’t give in, back away or put...

I challenge a man to a duel before allowing him near me, and then I take an arrow, dip it in poison, and drive it straight through his heart…But that’s on a good day…when I...

Darling, if I take your breath away, I will give you mine.

What was I to you?” he asked. She didn’t answer but turned and walked away. That’s when he knew: Nothing or everything.

A woman once held a Canary in the palm of her hand and stroked her and whispered a careful warning. The canary, seeking some freedom to fly, went into the mine while the woman watched...

He wasn’t yours to get hurt by. He was someone else’s and you knew that, so why are you offended? What right do you have to be hurt when you were a part of the...

An empath is capable of taking on the grief of another in order to lessen their suffering. In order to not be consumed with pain, an empath should have an outlet for that pain lest...

We love because we can lose. If there was no threat of separation, no death to shake us to our core, we probably wouldn’t love much at all.

Love doesn’t keep score,” he challenged.I shrugged my shoulders. “But people do…