It takes loneliness in oneself to recognize it in another.

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 we misjudge what is possible and what is not.

Keep trying until you have no more chances left.

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.

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

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.