It was the sort of beauty you feel so deeply it becomes contagious and somehow makes you feel beautiful too.

My darling girl, when are you going to realize that being normal is not necessarily a virtue? It rather denotes a lack of courage." - Aunt Frances

I'm much faster now. When you only have a certain amount of time to write, after a while you learn to use your time well or you stop writing

Love is worth the sum of itself, and nothing more.

Once you know some things, you can't unknow them. It's a burden that can never be given away.

I wrote to find beauty and purpose, to know that love is possible and lasting and real, to see day lilies and swimming pools, loyalty and devotion, even though my eyes were closed, and all that surrounded me was a darkened room. I wrote because that was who I was at the core, and if I was too damaged to walk around the block, I was lucky all the same. Once I got to my desk, once I started writing, I still believed anything was possible.

Every problem has a solution, although it may not be the outcome that was originally hoped for or expected.