"Dreams would always end with you, and then mornings would steal you away with a cruelty that haunted my days."
- Laura Miller
"She was also a memory, the worst kind of memory--the kind that pulled you to your knees at just the sound of her name."
"The past is a very determined ghost, haunting every chance it gets."
"She always used to say that the past is a relentless parasite in its quest, feeding off of the senses, looking for anything that will trigger a memory–forever there to complicate the present, forever ..."
"Big events, small, mundane moments of the day–it doesn’t matter; the past will find a way to squeeze into the present–if you let it."
"She tries to wear her pain on the inside. She always has. It’s the trademark of the oldest sibling, I think."
"When life gives you a hundred reasons to cry, show life that you have a thousand reasons to smile.Laura Miller - Butterfly Weeds"
"Life didn’t go how I had planned, but I couldn’t have planned a better life. Somewhere in between the beginning and eternity, I fought the war that we all must fight–the journey that in taking, force..."
"I just want you to know that I love you with everything I am—a million times a million and to the moon and back."
"Little girl, little boyIf love has a wayFill their fields with laughterAnd scatter the sun on their dayAnd if it should happen to rainMake their raindrops kissesStraight from heaven aboveThat touch th..."