When first love ends, most people eventually know there will be more to come. They are not through with love. Love is not through with them. It will never be the same as the first, but it will be better in different ways.

We didn't believe in fate, but we believed in serendipity. We felt very lucky.

To get something you must give something away. To hold something you must give something away. To love something you must give something away.

Measure the hope of that moment, that feeling. Everything else will be measured against it.

Do you know when you cross against traffic? You look down the street and see a car coming, but you know you can get across before it gets to you. So even though there’s a DON’T WALK sign, you cross anyway. And there’s always a split second when you turn and see that car coming, and you know that if you don’t continue moving, it will all be over. That’s how I feel a lot of the time. I know I’ll make it across. I always make it across. But the car is always there, and I always stop to watch it coming.

I am not dangerous. Only the stories are dangerous. Only the fictions we create, especially when they become expectations.

He is much stronger than I think I am. He is mischievous, outgoing, ready to soar through the clouds, while I often feel like the cloud itself.