“Over the years, I learned to smile or laugh when I was supposed to. I kept my true self hidden; I did not need to unleash my pain on the world around me. Instead, I taught myself to ignore it.… — J.D. Stroube Copy Share Image
“The age of lost innocence varies for each person. Some lose it when they learn that their childhood fantasies are merely myth, while others lose theirs due to trauma. As adults, we often look down our noses at those who… — J.D. Stroube Copy Share Image
“I could see her will leaving and death seeping through her skin to skewer her soul.” — J.D. Stroube Copy Share Image
“It wasn’t that she necessarily wanted to “socialize” at the bonfire, but she wanted to broadcast to the general population that her antisocial behavior… — J.D. Stroube Copy Share Image
“There are people in the world, who are just wrong, and then there are the masses of population that are right, or at the… — J.D. Stroube Copy Share Image
“Their screams would echo through the house and reverberate against my eardrums until my mind would fracture. Years went by and with each fracture;… — J.D. Stroube Copy Share Image
“Life is filled with unanswered questions, but it is the courage to seek those answers that continues to give meaning to life. You can… — J.D. Stroube Copy Share Image
“If the town were a black hole, I was the helpless star being sucked into oblivion. It was an oblivion I craved.” — J.D. Stroube Copy Share Image
“The walls that caged me were not of this world, but were within my mind.” — J.D. Stroube Copy Share Image
“It stood calm against the suburban storm raging around it. The thunder screamed across the sky; it slapped the clouds into a heated turmoil… — J.D. Stroube Copy Share Image
“The melodious song mesmerized me and cloaked my soul in a most liberating embrace I had never known. The emotion enveloped me, and smothered… — J.D. Stroube Copy Share Image
“I took my menial life for granted until it became clear, why my early years resulted in a lack of adoption.- J.D. Stroube (Rival:… — J.D. Stroube Copy Share Image
“Even knowing that my presence brought a shadow over the lives of my loved ones, I can't regret the experiences I've had with them.… — J.D. Stroube Copy Share Image
“Angels exist; sometimes they're your best friend and other times they are someone you met a single time or know only by name, but… — J.D. Stroube Copy Share Image
