“Relationships take work. It isn’t true love if things go smoothly.”
— S.R. Crawford
“You are a blue rose, Letti. It’s almost impossible that you exist amongst the other roses but you do. You bring wonder to those who are lucky enough to find you. The blue rose is lonely, lost and awaits someone special to believe in them; the same feeling I got from you the day we met. Blue roses are incomprehensible and mysterious. And so are you.”
— S.R. Crawford
“Beautiful things have been broken before…”
— S.R. Crawford
“You’re not fine. You’re not. And that’s OK. The first thing I want you to do is to finally tell yourself that it’s OK not to be OK. To accept that you’re feeling badly and that something isn’t right. Too many of us are in denial because we think that to admit there’s something wrong means we’re weak or broken or odd. I don’t know if it’s society, or just who we associate with, but we need to change our way of thinking. We are not weak. We are not broken. We are not odd.”
— S.R. Crawford
“Believe in gold and thou shalt never settle for silver.”
— S.R. Crawford
“You are a blue rose, Letti. It’s almost impossible that you exist amongst the other roses but you do. You bring wonder to those who are lucky enough to find you.”
— S.R. Crawford
“Even when or if I become one of you, I vow to appreciate life; to appreciate my strength because unlike you, it seems, I’ve worked to earn mine”
— S.R. Crawford
“What is the date? What is the time? … Great, that’s what Now is. And every second, your ‘Now’ changes. Because all we have is Now. We are continuously living in the Now. Not yesterday, not tomorrow, but Now. Today. The present. And I need you to live in it. To truly appreciate it. To breathe and feel yourself breathing.”
— S.R. Crawford
“Time passes no matter what you do.”
— S.R. Crawford
“You see, people are everywhere. They are everything. No matter who we are, or what we do, people are involved in our lives. If those people are poisonous, our lives will be poisonous also.”
— S.R. Crawford
“There is a lot of negativity and bad habits that just need to be cut out of our lives. Sometimes we hold on tightly to the things that are actually causing us a lot of pain. We are our own worst enemy. We cling to all the wrong things. We subconsciously do things that are very bad for us, the worst being that we tell ourselves every day that “we’re not good enough” and “it’s our fault”. Well cut it out!”
— S.R. Crawford
“A seed, in order to grow, must first be planted under the best conditions. Be that space or time. I think, therefore, that you have yet to find your perfect conditions.”
— S.R. Crawford
“Stop shying away from people. If you actually took a moment to listen to what they have to say, they might just say something that will change your life.”
— S.R. Crawford
“There’s nothing worse than bottling something up inside and letting it eat at you. It’s like being shot, and leaving the bullet inside our bodies. The wound would never heal. Instead, we need to let it out.”
— S.R. Crawford
“The truth is scary. We all think we want it, but once it’s given, it’s harder to swallow than we originally thought. But sometimes, when the pain is too much, we have to be honest with ourselves. Why are we unhappy? Why are we scared? Is it internal, or external? Then when we find the answer, we need to accept it (see chapter 1), and make the necessary changes to fix it.”
— S.R. Crawford
“For people like us, looking towards the future can feel daunting. It can literally make us feel sick to the stomach and often induces panic attacks. Trust me, I’ve been there; I get it. That’s why the far-future should never be at the top of our “to-plan” list. It’s alright to have goals but to stress ourselves out with plans and options and worries of the future is a good way to drive us crazy. However, there is one time when I want you to consider the future. Always have something to look forward to.”
— S.R. Crawford
“Less thinking, more living.”
— S.R. Crawford
“Sun and snow is an Angel’s glow, but storm and rain? That’s a Demon’s bane.”
— S.R. Crawford
“No matter who you are, everyone has a shadow; a constant darkness that follows them wherever they go…unless where you go is into the darkness itself, of course, because then you have already been consumed.”
— S.R. Crawford
“Keep your head up and your hopes high, friend; anything is possible.”
— S.R. Crawford
“There’s only so many times you can fight before the only person you fight for is yourself.”
— S.R. Crawford
“You can’t make a small world for yourself, because what are you going to do when that small world implodes?”
— S.R. Crawford
“Truth means facing denial and saying I know who I am, I know who I need to be and I’m not afraid to become that person no matter what…Never be without fear; but Letti, never be without fight.”
— S.R. Crawford
“The minute grains of sand slipped silently down the curved hourglass, no matter how many times the people of Earth willed them not to. Time, fate and the actions of others were out of their control.”
— S.R. Crawford
“The world isn’t big enough for all of us.”
— S.R. Crawford
“What do you want?”To see the world burn, and a new one be born from the ashes…”
— S.R. Crawford
“You can never trust a Vampire, child.”
— S.R. Crawford
“The flames of their passion illuminated the dimly lit room, filling it with a blazing fire which was either brilliantly beautiful or dangerously violent.”
— S.R. Crawford
“You think your children are better than mine? Ha! When yours were out playing with gold, mine were out fighting for survival. You taught your children to roll in money when I taught mine what it means to be strong.”
— S.R. Crawford
“Besides, men aren’t worth your time anyway, Letti. If we women spent as much time on ourselves as we do fretting over men, we’d be invincible! Work on yourself because at the end of the day, you’re the only person you can trust.”
— S.R. Crawford