Maryam’s Dead Ended, Seemingly Rhetorical but Generally Futile Questions about Life (Part 28)

How long can you go explaining your actions by claiming you simply weren’t aware of their consequences?

first a no! to honest flattery
then an oh! to its tempting fruit
once a foe! to her modest personality
now a woe! to his cautious pursuit

Maryam’s Guilty Little Secrets (Part 15)

I often, speak without reserve.

If I like you and I feel we’re on the same page, I pretty much lose all reserve.

It’s only recently that I’m discovering that this isn’t such a good thing.

Go ahead, call me stupid.

Maryam’s Keenly Observed Facts of Life (Part 67)

You can understand something through Love and you can understand the same thing through Fear. There is a world of difference between the two.

Maryam’s Keenly Observed Facts of Life (Part 66)

Some things hurt so deep, it takes a while for the pain to surface.