Every army has a beginning, no matter how humble.

Because I love you.' It was easy to say it this time now that I understood what it meant. Then I quoted his own words back to him. 'Not just when it's easy. All the time.

Sometimes when you meet someone, there’s a click. I don’t believe in love at first sight but I believe in that click. Recognition.

Then in the interest of full honesty, I really wish you'd kiss me right now.

I think my head's a minefield strewn with triggers, and maybe if I survive each explosion, what emerges from the wreckage will be me, really, truly me.

Life…never gave me a chance to be soft.

But courage wasn't an absence of fear; it was fighting despite the knot in your stomach.