“She was crazy. I could be too. It was my greatest fear, that I’d snap one day too. Just like she had. I wanted to live life because if that day came I wanted to have lived once.”

You’re my existence. I’m yours

The emptiness where I used pain to fill the hole no longer controls me, no longer calls me because of you.

Maybe not this year or the next but one day they’d end up married. In this lifetime and every one after it. Just knowing that I’d get to watch them find each other and fall in love in every life made me smile.

Unconditional love is hard to compete with.

I’m not losing you again. You’re with me. I want you there beside me. Always.

Write every day. Writing is a muscle that gets stronger with use.

When a soul is created, so is its mate. In every lifetime those souls find each other. They complete the other’s destiny.

You want to know what happened? YOU happened Rush. That’s what happened.

You’re ever song I have ever sung. I’ll never let anything hurt you again. For the first time in my life, my dreams aren’t about me. They’re about you.” -Jax

You love me?” … “Yes. More than life.

Hold her for me. Hold her tight. Don’t let her be lonely. Don’t let her hurt. Please.

You aren’t what I expected. I wish you were. It’d be so much easier.

death had just shred a tear

Is she forever for you then? She’s worth throwing it all away?” “She’s it. No one else. She’s all I’m ever going to want.

Nothing in life was as precious as this woman. It never would be. I’d found my happiness.

You are mine. Do you hear me? You are mine, Della Sloane. I will take care of you. Nothing is taking you away from me. Nothing.

To give up yourself without regret is the greatest charity.

Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.

I want it to be the greatest thing I ever do: make good humans.

I see that the greatest thing about getting older is how your judgment changes and how you come to understand the cycles of life. And you keep having these amazing flashes of understanding.

The greatest triumphs of propoganda have been accomplished, not by doing something, but by refraining from doing. Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth.

How to save the old that’s worth saving, whether in landscape, houses, manners, institutions, or human types, is one of our greatest problems, and the one that we bother least about.

No, he was in agony, and he looked down at us – denying him, abandoning him, and betraying him – and in the greatest act of love in history, he STAYED. He said, “Father, forgive them, they don’t know what they are doing.” He loved us, not because we were lovely to him, but to make us lovely.

Sadie,” he said forlornly, “when you become a parent, you may understand this. One of my hardest jobs as a father, one of my greatest duties, was to realize that my own dreams, my own goals and wishes, are secondary to my children’s.