Pain

"Sebastian tapped his index finger on the polished wood thoughtfully. Yes, it was a universal truth: some things once broken were broken forever—like trust. It might be patched up and smoothed over, but it would always be the thing that had once been shattered."

"It's not your enemies who are likeliest to hurt you. It is, always, those you trust."

"Trust opens the door that pain had sealed shut."

"Pain of the past never goes away, you just find a way to deal with it. And in the future... all the promise it holds... that's what keeps you moving forward, and out of the darkness."

"Trust, is the stone thrown into the sea, sinking deep in all its murkiness, unable to see what it once lived and believed to be a promise."

"What God knows about me is more important than what others think about me."

"Dear my brothers there is no more room for wanting to be a thug, BUT there is PLENTY of room for being a father, lawyer, doctor and a teacher. Please take this in consideration!"

"Real Men can commit to 1 person. Only boys are "Players", pimps usually get lock up or die at the end of movies, & dogs catch fleas!"

"Some people will only "love u " as much as they can use u. their loyalty end's where the benefits stop"

"Quit hating and trying be like the next man. Get on your own grind & be better than the next man, whether you gotta hustle, work a job or whatever just do you."

"Quit hating and trying to be like the next man. Get on your own grind & be better than the next man, whether you gotta hustle, work a job or whatever just do you."

"Do not trust a person without scars. If they have no scars, then it means someone else is wearing theirs, usually unfairly, and usually permanently."

"One foot in front of the other, more aimless than direct, Bradford left the waiting room for the outside world. Called for a taxi and then dialed Munroe again, desperate for her voice, for one ray of light in the darkness, afraid of what he might say if she did answer, afraid of himself and the inner deadening that pointed to a danger far more lethal than any rage he'd felt."

"The boy knelt, shoulders bowed, on the sand in the grey of morning, moaning softly, fearfully. Glowing tendrils of energy streamed across the agitated sky, converging high above him in a vortex of brightness. He flung his hands heavenward and a sheet of blinding brilliance descended from the vortex. It enveloped him and from its core a pulsing sphere of light fell, entering his body and almost tearing him apart. He went rigid, screaming to shatter the heavens, his dark eyes bulging from their sockets, his mouth wide in a rictus of agony. Sirius exploded in a burst of silver-blue radiance, as his howl rose to a shriek beyond hearing and endurance. Out of the light and the sound and the anguish, two names imprinted themselves on his mind. One of them, he knew, was his own. The other floated for an instant above his consciousness like a fugitive white dove in the morning."

"Hell in life indicates a state of suffering, of agony, of torture (by others, by circumstances, or by ourselves), and of insipid colors and little joy. Hell is a heavy vibration that drags us spiraling down from the highest to the lowest, darkest vibrations.."

"They talked on into the early morning, the high, pale cast of light in the windows, and they did not think of leaving."

"the star that I was wishingthe light that I was kissingsitting back and reminiscing that night, it was missing."

"The light is supposed to enter through your breaks, wounds, and cracks."

"When darkness falls, beauty is lit from within."

"I touched the moon last night;a golden glow beyond my grasp. Eons before me it rested there. It will remain when I am dust. My hand now glows from the embrace. Voices echo through nights past,and with the glow, caress my face. My finger faints from what will last. Alone I am; alone secure;the moon will last when I am gone. A Master set it in its’ place,to move the tide, refresh the dawn. Unnumbered eyes have felt its rest;have looked upon reflected light. My heart is moved away from pain;I touched the moon last night."