Jessica Verdi

I don__ know how long it__ been since I__e been gone, but you have to move on. If not today, then someday soon.I love you, Ryden, I will always love you, but I__ not here anymore.

If there's anything worth any risk at all, it's got to be love, right?

...this is your life. It's not your mom's. You have to do what makes you happy too

Listen, I wanted to say, I don't need your judgment, okay? I have enough to deal with without you contributing, so can we just get on with this so I can get out of here?But I couldn't form the words. Dr. Johnson viewed me as a child, and somehow, under his contemptuous gaze, I had regressed to one. I was frightened and shy, and it was all I could do to answer his questions and count the seconds until the end of the visit.

That__ the point. This healthy-feeling time now just feels like a tease. Like I__ in this holding pattern, flying in smooth circles within sight of the airport, in super-comfortable first class. But I can__ enjoy the in-flight movie or free chocolate chip cookies because I know that before the airport is able to make room for us, the plane is going to run out of fuel, and we__e going to crash-land into a fiery, agonizing death.

I'd never wanted to punch anyone as badly as I wanted to punch her right in her perfectly little surgically-altered nose.