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"What if I avenge?" She asks in her blue dress with the gold chain. Fine - everything about her is fine. She has a sparkle of gold, a thin veneer, and so everyone thinks they're safe. Their power and place not remotely threatened. 

But what if I avenge? she thought.

Do I have a heart that...

You see your pretty face crumbling away. 

You're a beautiful girl with knives for hands. You're just a beautiful girl with knives, and no one has ever found that beautiful about you. God, they're missing so much. All those knives turning inward with no place else to go - years and years...

You'd do anything just to get rescued.

You'd let yourself get sick over and over.

You'd let yourself be had and broken by people who would really make the wound sing - who would make that open gaping wound in your midsection seem obvious, and who would provide that service with glee.

You'd be so...

Emotional intensity gets a bad rap.

We've all heard it: calm down, don't let this bother you so much, why can't you just get over it? You get yourself so worked up. 

And that's just what people say. The energy and judgement we pick up from them when we are simply being our deep-feeling...

You always try to be everything to everyone. 

I'm picturing a sunflower of a girl - I wish I could go back in time and tell her: you don't have to be everything to everyone. Some people are just miserable, you're allowed to distance yourself from them. You're allowed to leave them in their...