If this was my instinct talking, I didn‟t want to hear what it was saying.

“It's not always easy being her daughter.' I think,' she said, 'sometimes it's h…”

“I'd been through so much, falling short again and again, and only recently had …”

“Right now, though, I wanted not to think forward or backward, but only to lose …”

“When I pictured myself, it was always like just an outline in a coloring book, …”