From Darkest Skies

Did she model the Alysha beneath the masks and façades that every one of us wears, or did she model the masks too, the person Alysha tried to be whenever anyone was watching? Even the cracksman who’d made her hadn’t been able to give a certain answer to that. A mixture of the two, he’d said. The person she presented to the world, the parts she want

Memories are like hibernating bears. They disappear into some dark cave until you forget they were ever there, and that’s when they wake up and roar.