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You know, I have a theory about injury and healing. It’s just anecdotal, from my own personal experience with trauma – which, granted, is nothing measured against your own. In my opinion, souls are no different than limbs. If you break a leg or an arm, it’s going to hurt when it happens, sharply and unbearably. Therapy is like what you do to set the bones properly in a cast and monitor its mending. It’s the physical rehab, the stretching, the follow up x-rays. But the limb is never the same. On rainy days, the joint aches. If you run a marathon on it, it will be sore. Maybe the healed part isn’t quite right. Souls are the same. There are different marathons we run, whether it’s the day-to-day interactions with our spouses or the people we work with. Maybe it’s an event like Balthazar getting hurt. Perhaps it’s an anniversary of a bad night or even a good one, like a holiday or a birthday. These are the marathons our souls run, and sometimes, where we have healed aches. Or worse. And that is nonnegotiable part of being a survivor.

A warm heart in winter by J. R. Ward

Yeah, because life-changing events didn’t necessarily happen at beaches in the moonlight or in front of roaring fires with champagne flutes. Instagram pics were great but they were curated to be great. Real life went down when and where it did, regardless of whether things were photogenic.

A warm heart in winter by J. R. Ward

“Extra money is a bullshit concept, when it comes down to it. For most people, the more they make, the more they spend. Bigger houses, fancier cars, more recognizable brand names. It isn’t like they get to a point where they think, ‘yep, I’ve got enough now, I’ll pass on the rest.’ Which means there’s no such thing as extra. Money is money. It’s a necessary evil.”

Excerpt From
Grievous (Scarlet Scars Book 2)
J.M. Darhower

“You guess? Do you? Because I don’t. I don’t guess. Either you do or you don’t. Either you’re looking for a job or you’re not. If you don’t understand your own motivations enough to not have to take a fucking guess, then we’ve got a problem.”

Excerpt From
Menace (Scarlet Scars Book 1)
J.M. Darhower