We said we would meet again but we made no arrangements. Not out of any bad feeling between us, but because I felt it had all been said, or not said but understood, and she probably did too. To know she was there was enough, and for her to know I was around was probably too. Sometimes that's all people ever really need. Just to know.

I just need to do something new.... I've got the big remote control of life in my hands, and I'm ready to start pushing some buttons.

He tried to tell me week after week to accept things as they were and move on with my life. But if there was one man who had put his life on hold to wait for something or someone, it was him.

...all people needed was time and then they could figure most things out of themselves.

Maybe love is thinking that every time your partner does or says something mundane that you want to start a Mexican wave from here to Uzbekistan in utter delight.

Stop and take your time to notice things and make those things you notice matter.

There is absolutely nothing wrong with returning to the house you grew up in every now and again. It's good for the soul.