So often people tell me: you got me through this, you've really helped me. And I never realized that part of what I do is that I give people hope.

I don't need a man to be happy. I had a great one , that was good enough. I don't expect to find another one like him, and why settle for anything less? I'm going ot be perfectly content alone.--Marya

Sometimes we have to face the things that hurt us most. Maybe you won’t heal till you do. You haven’t yet.” They both knew that was true. “You can’t move ahead until you bury the past.

And the worst thing she had heard were the words he hadn't said, the fact that he hadn't loved her.

This is fusion, when two people become one. They are so close and so well suited to each other that they blend together. They merge and can't live without each other after that.

We are always better than before when those we love inflict wounds upon us.

Somebody once said to me that photography and writing don't get respect because people think that they can do it, too.