Love wasn't always enough. And love without trust… was that even love?
—S.C. Stephens in Effortless
We were young… we were in love… and we were about to go off into the unknown and make a treasure-trove of stories that we could tell our children about someday.
—S.C. Stephens in Effortless
Sometimes family was the cruelest form of love there was, for no one could hurt you more than the people who created you.
—S.C. Stephens in Effortless
Sometimes people that you thought you knew really well, could turn out to be people that you didn't know at all.
—S.C. Stephens in Effortless
I wanted to forgive him for everything, but I couldn't. I didn't trust him.
—S.C. Stephens in Effortless
Some scared, insecure part of me had known we wouldn't make it… so I'd savored him.
—S.C. Stephens in Effortless
Sniffling into my pillow, I waited for the hole in my heart to stop stabbing me with pain. I waited to not feel like my life was over. That's all I felt, though… that everything was over.
—S.C. Stephens in Effortless