If I Stay

Would he warm the hands he cannot see?

Sometimes you make choices in life and sometimes choices make you

What would it be like if I stay? What would it feel like to wake up an orphan? To never smell Dad smoke a pipe? To never stand next to Mom quietly talking as we do the dishes? To never read Teddy another chapter

I remember watching it all and getting that tickling in my chest and thinking to myself: This is what happiness feels like.

And I bet she’ll be a stronger person because of what she’s lost today. I have a feeling that once you live through something like this, you become a little bit invincible.

She had her own ideas about things; I suppose we all do.”

What would it be like if I stay?

If you can’t trust me with a choice, how can you trust me with a child?

had the feeling that I was wading into quicksand, and that if I took one more step, there’d be no extricating myself and I’d sink until I suffocated

I realize now that dying is easy. Living is hard