True love comes when it will, not when it's called.

...to be unkind because you are thoughtless is the worst kind of blindness.

I am free to choose my own actions. Indeed, like everyone else, I must be so. A good act that is compelled is not goodness at all, but merely force.

Keep what you hold in your heart safe and strong.

Yet even the brightest of sunrises must come to an end.

Sometimes, pushing against change only makes it push back twice as hard. But even the most bitter fruit may contain something sweet at its core. A taste you would never have encountered if you had not been willing to endure the bitter first.

I had to cease to mourn what could never be and make the most of what was possible. And I would begin doing that by trying to mend the hurts of the past.