For so long, she ignored the voice inside of herthe voice of her inner child, the one who had seen too much and understood too little. She buried her cries beneath layers of anger, denial, and pain, convincing herself that her wounds were insignificant, that they were nothing compared to the suffering of others. But she was wrong. Now, shes finally started to listen. Finally started to hear the echoes of that little girl who was once too afraid to speak, and as she does, she realizes that her voice was hers too. This is her attempt to unravel the tangled web of her past, to face the struggles that have haunted her for years, and to give that child the voice she was never allowed to have. These diary entries are her way of making sense of it allof the battles shes fought, the trauma shes endured, and the hope that, somehow, she might still find a way to heal. This is her story, and its time it is told.

This book is about everything I am too scared to tell him. It is about love, pain and the desperation when nothing works out the way you want it to work out. These are short stories that explain my feelings better than I could ever explain them by talking. So, if you are ready for a whole lot of heartbreak, pain and the sad reality of my first love: start reading. This is my way of telling him "I love you" without actually saying it out loud and my way to get over everything.

"In my golden twenties, I became soft like milk and honey and strong like old-time money." Rooted somewhere between always and never, young college student Morgan coats her life's story in dreamy poetry. A life that has American dreaming written all over it: Mental pictures of endless Fourth of July nights, Boston winters and East Coast memories. And if it wouldn't be for her professor, Morgan might still believe it was all just a dream. But Mr. Anderson knows that words have a way of making things real. So with the beginning of her poetry, Morgan lets us see, feel and wonder what it means to come home. Home to a place of ever-curious minds and home to oneself.

I don't want you to love me If you don't want it too. So please, not just when push comes to shove Lead this fight in me to an end and say the words that will bury this love. 17 little stories and poems, written for those who are lost, want comfort, inspiration or just a way to escape this world. There are some stories that consist of pure dialogue, some that tell a whole story without mentioning any names and a few that are simply meant to show how some people see the world. "Beautifully written, but I would be happier if you had done the laundry quickly in that time." ~ my mom

From a teenagers mind That is where these thoughts Come from. This is all I have To express all I feel, All I want to say But cannot say aloud.

Will we ever know who we really are? Or are we doomed to be stuck in a maze, trying to find our way through to embrace the person that is ourselves? Life tends to have several unique ways to guide us through our own maze. May it be Insomnia that reveals our inner thoughts and forces us to converse with the child within ourselves, or a scenery that we embrace with our eyes, indulging us in a high of simply being alive. Whatever the situation may be, it will always guide us through the maze and brings us another step further to find out what makes us us.