Through the Dark

We will move forward as one, and in time, rise like sparks beyond the night.

But we are stronger for what's happened to us. I am stronger, even if I couldn't see it at first. We have been given the gift of understanding that we can come through struggle and pain. We have built new families in place of the ones that cast us out. We have learned that life is one journey, and the purpose is not to reach some treasure at the end of it, but to find the courage to decide which paths to take, who to travel with, and to let things fall into place as they should and will.

You want to know the real reason they never let us touch or talk to each other if they could help it? It made us strong. If you have people who love you, you can fall back on them when you're afraid.

Of course. My girl? She's incredible.

The spectrum of her emotions consisted only of calm and terror. She came back to us in full color.

I love you." It's our beginning, our middle, and one day--please God, a long way from here--our end. And It is the truth.

We have learned that life is one journey, and the purpose is not to reach some treasure at the end of it, but to find the courage to decide which paths to take, who to travel with, and to let things fall into place as they should and will.

A part of me wonders if it's not what she went through that has shaped her into something so solid and strong, but the people who went through it with her.

Home isn’t four walls, it’s the people you’re with.

One day we will ignite and create a blaze that no one can put out, ignore, hurt. We will move forward as one, and in time, rise like sparks beyond the night.

His brother's dream is here, alive. It has survived death and destruction; it hasn't blown away with the ash that settles after his fire was put out. It will go on.

Starting now, I'm leaving the past alone in the past.

There are tests, but there are also small mercies. Life tossed us up into the air, scattered us, and we all somehow found our way back. And we will do it again. And again. And again.

Crazy is only crazy when it works.

But I guess what I mean is, being afraid can't be a reason for us not to do something now...' 'Our voice will only get louder the more of us we bring together.

I feel like I've been swept up and dropped on my head in a world that looks like mine but is slightly different. Brighter, more vibrant — or at least missing some of the dust and grime that's collected over our lives after years of neglect. I can't tell which direction is right or wrong anymore, but I know I want to stay.