Gerald

“Instead of worrying about what you cannot control, shift your energy to what you can create.”
― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

“Terror and grief crashed at me like the waves: violent and sharp, gushing and ebbing, but, at length, revealing a softness beneath. There was hope there. There was longing.

It was too late for both of us.

The sea witch howled.

I felt ancient and infantile.

My warming skin welcomed me back.

I pulled my final leg through and I landed, again, on the sand.

My belly was heavy, and sore at its scars, but I kicked my mottled grey tail and flapped my flippers. The true scent of the ocean roared back.

I threw myself at the mercy of the sea foam.

*

I plummet to the jagged water,

Ending fourteen years I’d fought her,

I am not the Raven’s daughter,

I ‘claimed my skin from the witch.”
― Christy Anne Jones, The Mercy of Sea Foam

“You were healing. You’re still healing. You’ll maybe always be healing. And that’s OK. It’ll just be part of what makes you you.”
― Beth O'Leary, The Switch

“The tricky thing about giving opinions is that sometimes they cost you more than you wanted to spend.”
― Stacey Lee, The Downstairs Girl