What was a rose but the living proof of desire, the single best evidence of human longing and earthly devotion. but desire could be twisted,after all, and Jealousy was the name of the rose that did well in arid souls.

The frightened walk away when love is difficult. I know that now. You have to be willing to give everything away. You have to be willing to end up with nothing. Only then will your heart be whole.

He believed in dreams, in endings that people told you could never happen, in disappointments reversed and luck that lasted.

Being human means losing everything we love best in the world," she murmured as she released me. "But would you ask to be anything else?

Maybe some love was guaranteed. Maybe it fit inside you and around you like skin and bones.

Never look at other people's bad fortune,' my mother said. 'If you do, it will come back to find you instead of its rightful owner.

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