It Burns Within Us | Wildfire Series Book 1

J O U R N A L S

Two

Everything feels a little dimmer at college. You think it's okay. But you're not really sure.

Three

You smiled without thinking today. You smiled a little for yourself.

Maybe you're brighter than you thought.

Four

You got a compliment today. Your boyfriend took you out to eat, and it was nice.

You feel valued.

But you know that you only feel like you're worth something because someone else told you that you were.

And you don't know how to fix it.

Two

Try to remind yourself that your worth doesn't depend on other people recognizing it.

One

Isn't it funny? Isn't it funny how quickly you can go from feeling valued to feeling like you're not wanted anywhere?

Zero

It's after midnight, so it's a new day. You find yourself starting over at zero.

Three

Today you said what you needed to say. And now you feel unburdened by words, but yet...you think you're still burdened by the reaction to them.

Three

Sometimes the things you say end up revealing more about other people than about yourself.

Two

Some people say when it rains, it pours...

One

But it wasn't just raining. And it wasn't even pouring. It was calm. It was preparing for a storming.

.....

I had loved you, too.

One

How do you know when something is real? Is it enough to touch it? To hear it? To see it?

Or maybe you just have to feel it?

Four

It don't know what it is. But I know that I feel it.

Five

"She went and stood at an open light window and looked out upon the deep tangle of the garden below. All of the mystery and witchery of the night seemed to have gathered there amid the perfumes and the dusky and tortuous outlines of flowers and foliage. She was seeking herself and finding herself in just such sweet, half-darkness which met her moods."

-The Awakening, Kate Chopin

Zero

"But the voices were not soothing that came to her from the darkness and the sky above and the stars.They jeered and sounded mournful notes without promise, devoid even of hope.