underneath all that denial, you're someone who's deeply, deeply nice.

Making love without noise is like playing a muted piano-fine for practice, but you cheat yourself out of hearing the glorious results.

My mother said I should have a 'change of scenery.' The word scenery made be think of a play. And as we were driving around, it made sense that way. Because no matter how much the scenery changed, we were still on the same stage.

It was like everyone suddenly knew what mattered. Money didn't matter. Politics didn't matter. Tabloid news didn't matter. No-compassion mattered. Calm mattered. Respect mattered. Did it really take something of this magnitude to make us realize this?

You think you know your possibilities. Then other people come into your life and suddenly there are so many more.

This isn't even something I've feared, because I never knew it was a possibility.

breathtaking, adj. Those moments when we kiss and surrender for an hour before we say a single word.