Do you see how the sky holds the sun? In a powerful but effortless way that shows off her beauty and strength? That's how a King holds his Queen.

— J.A. ANUM

Emotional pain was the price I paid on the path to becoming a woman. So excuse me if I’m not clueless like a little girl.

— J.A. ANUM

He pulled me close and said, "Katie, don't leave me, you're my breath, I refuse to live without you." It was the most beautiful thing I had ever heard, but I still walked away, because my name is Anne Marie.

— J.A. ANUM

He walked out the door and with each step my heart breaks. He'd be gone for days with long silences between each breath. I know I'm his one of many, and he knows he's my one of one. The only one who holds him down. Yet, he still leaves. He walks through the door and with each step my heart leaps. He crumbles to the ground in tears telling me he's sorry. He says he needs me, and he's nothing without me. How can he be so attached and detached at the same time? I swear, this man loves to see me in pain.

— J.A. ANUM

I am a master wordsmith. I have the ability to bend words at will and invoke feelings with the stroke of my pen. But I'm yet to master the art of finding the right words to describe what happens in my heart when I see you.

— J.A. ANUM

I am nothing but a ripped fabric stitched together by God's grace.

— J.A. ANUM

I don't write about you because you don't deserve to be immortalized in my words. I'll leave you to float around in my mind until forgetfulness comes to take you away.

— J.A. ANUM

I'll gladly settle for amnesia if I had to live in a world where I couldn't remember how much you mean to me.

— J.A. ANUM

I'll stop loving you the day my shadow stops following me around. Because on that day, nothing will make sense.

— J.A. ANUM

I tasted danger on his lips and became an addict. A slave to adrenaline and irrational behavior. We lived recklessly in a dramatic whirl;Clubbing and Cutting, Drinking and Driving, Fighting and Fucking, Smoking and Snorting, Overdoing and Overdosing. I tasted danger on his lips and lost my way.

— J.A. ANUM