As long as I have laughter, I am not without hope

He is different, and there will be many people you love who will be unhappy with you. You don’t want them to feel you’ve dishonored them. Yes, I know how it is. But life is short. A chance for great happiness doesn’t come along all that often.

Sometimes, life seems to have a higher meaning. Events unfold in uncanny sequences. Long-forgotten acquaintances turn up with news that changes lives. A stranger appears and speaks a few words of wisdom, solving a previously insoluble problem, or something in a recent dream transpires in reality. Suddenly the existence of God seems confirmed.

Life's mysterious, strange, and full of wonders - and only a fool withdraws from it willingly and lets it pass him by.

She was fascinated with words. To her, words were things of beauty, each like a magical powder or potion that could be combined with other words to create powerful spells.

If someone wrote it and it had a peculiar twist, I've read it.

...like a scene from the swamps of Louisiana or the mind of Poe on opium.