There are going to be moments of deep, deep doubts, and you have to have faith that your initial idea was good and just muddle through.

Some things have to be believed to be seen. -Ralph Hodgson

Love who you love while you have them. That's all you can do. Let them go when you must. If you know how to love, you'll never run out.

A tree is such a rich metaphor in a million beautiful ways. You can consider a tree growing and consider its connectedness to all things above and under the ground.

Life isn't just fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all. -William Goldman

Maybe happiness was just a matter of the little upticks- the traffic signal that said "Walk" the second you go there- and downticks- the itch tag at the back of your collar- that happened to every person in the course of the day. Maybe everybody had the same allotted measure of happiness within each day.

She realized all at once the deeper thing that bothered her, the thing that made him not just irritating but intolerable: how he kept loving her blindly when she deserved it so little.