“I know that somehow, every step I took since the moment I could walk was a step towards finding you.”

You are the answer to every prayer I’ve offered. You are a song, a dream, a whisper, and I don’t know how I could have lived without you for as long as I have.

The scariest thing about distance is that you don’t know whether they’ll miss you or forget you.

I mean, if the relationship can’t survive the long term, why on earth would it be worth my time and energy for the short term?

You might not believe it but you make the world a better place when you smile.

Sometimes, finding the light means you must past through the deepest darkness.

Just when you think it can’t get any worse, it can. And just when you think it can’t get any better, it can.

I love you, not just for now, but for always, and I dream of the day that you’ll take me in your arms again.

Everything a baby does strikes a parent as the most magical thing he/she has ever seen.

When you finally close the book, the characters have told their story and you start up again with another book, complete with new characters and adventures. Then you find yourself focusing on the new ones, not the ones from the past.

If you like her, if she makes you happy, and if you feel like you know her – then don’t let her go

It’s the possibility that keeps me going, not the guarantee.

The best love is the kind that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more, that plants a fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds. And that’s what you’ve given me. That’s what I’d hoped to give you forever

Thank you for coming into my life and giving me joy, thank you for loving me and receiving my love in return. Thank you for the memories I will cherish forever. But most of all, thank you for showing me that there will come a time when I can eventually let you go.

I don’t know that love changes. People change. Circumstances change.

In times of grief and sorrow I will hold you and rock you and take your grief and make it my own.

True love is rare, and it’s the only thing that gives life real meaning.

Stronger than lover’s love is lover’s hate. Incurable, in each, the wounds they make.

Those who are heartless, once cared too much.

You search, you break your heart, your back, your brain, and then-and only then-it is handed to you.

Don’t feel sad over someone who gave up on you, feel sorry for them because they gave up on someone who would have never given up on them.

I don’t know if I ever told you this before, but you’re the only one I ever waited for this long.

We have a good time together, even when we’re not together.

My dogs are there to teach me to take a break. They’re there to remind me that there’s more to life than work.

Understanding our history is one of many ways to break the cycle of racial injustice in this country. ⁣