Stereotypes are fast and easy, but they are lies, and the truth takes its time.

When what you want is a relationship, and not a person, get a dog.

To an untrained eye, need and love were as easily mistaken for each other as the real master's painting and a forgery.

I don’t know why we do it. But sometimes we just swim straight for the net.

Because words were hills and valleys you traveled, so lovely sometimes that they hurt your eyes.

But, finally, I had to open my eyes. I had to stop keeping secrets. The truth, thankfully, is insistent. What I saw then made action necessary. I had to see people for who they were. I had to understand why I made the choices I did. Why I had given them my loyalty. I had to make changed. I had to stop allowing love to be dangerous. I had to learn how to protect myself. But first… I had to look

The world was large, so large. Bigger than it had been before. Family, too, a bigger word. That felt like a good thing. An essential thing. There was power in numbers.