' Hot tears roll from the sides of my eyes
and down my plumped cheeks,
which ache from smiling
and i squeeze them with my hands to stop.
It occurs to me how close happiness and sadness are.
So closely knitted together.
Such a thin line. 
a thread like divide that in the midst of emotions,
it trembles, blurring the territory of exact opposites. 
The movement is minute,
like a thin thread of a spider's web
that quivers under a teardrop....

How quickly a moment of love
was snapped away to a moment of hate. 
One comment to steal it all away. 
Of how love and war stand upon the same foundations. 

In my darkest moments,
my most fearful times,
when faced became my bravest. 
When feeling at your weakest
you end up showing more strength,
when at your lowest, are suddenly lifted
above higher than you've ever been.  
They all border one another,
those opposites and how quickly we can be altered. 
Despair can be altered by one simple smile offered
by a stranger; confidence can become fear
by the arrival of one uneasy presence. ..
 
A veil hangs between the two opposites,
a mere slip of a thing that is transparent
to warn us or comfort us. 
You hate now but look through
the veil and see the possiblity of love;
you are sad now but look through to the
other side and see happiness. 
Absolute composure to a complete mess-
it happens so quickly all in the blink of an eye.' 

- Thanks for the memories Cecelia Ahern