“Love is the way I feel for you, the way you fill something inside me whenever you so much as walk into the same room.”

It hurts being the one who loves more

It takes loneliness in oneself to recognize it in another.

It’s frightening how much things change in seventy-one years.

But the world is out there, and it understands that the illusion of knowledge and freedom is not the same as the real thing.

The afterlife is whatever a soul wishes or believes it to be.

Finally he closed the distance between us and kissed me – a sweet, gentle kiss that held within it every single one of the thousand days I’d loved him as my everything, long after I’d begun to love him as a friend.

Sometimes love is quite, lingering in the background until you least expect it. But love it always there for you

I care,” he said in a trembling voice. “I care so much that I do not know how to tell you without it seeming inconsequential compared to how.

I feel. Even if I am distant at times and seem as if I do not want to be with you, it is only because this scares me, too.

Sadness doesn’t equal weakness, sweetheart. If anything, it shows the love you have inside of you, and nothing stronger in this world exists.

Being brave doesn’t mean never being afraid, you know. It means going for it anyway because you know it’s the right thing to do.

Keep trying until you have no more chances left.

Sometimes we misjudge what is possible and what is not.

Harry Potter changed my life in more ways than one, and it helped me get through my mothers death.

Whatever obstacles you face, remember you can get through anything if you want to badly enough.

Eventually it will fade, and there are those who will do whatever it takes to make that happen sooner rather than later.

You could feel America starting to ease up a little bit on racism, against blacks in certain pockets, and then suddenly The Cosby Show bubbled up and it was the right time for it.

And tens of millions of Americans will feel a similar revulsion for the politicians and generals who were so spendthrift with others’ lives.

I feel like I’ve been in love, but I have stood aside from it over and over again in my life. It’s all you want, but it’s terrifying.

It feels good to play a little music / Tears running down my face ’cause I love to do it

Like you’d feel if you have a cold, so I didn’t really think it was anything.

It makes you feel cheap and guilty when you didn’t do a thing in the world to kindle the dull burn in your veins or the sting in your eyes.

Like you’d feel if you have a cold, so I didn’t really think it was anything.

Port Blue’ is my attempt at re-creating the music I want to hear and the emotions I want to feel.”