Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne
She struggled to breathe, struggle to move as she trembled, spine arching, head tilting, and her vein-covered lips parted, as if draining the energy from the room. The thing which snapped her from this state were knocks on the bathroom door and a voi