Kids' hearts are malleable, but once they gel it's hard to get them back the way they were.

I spent thirty-three years in another man's shadow. I went everywhere he went, I helped him with everything he did. I was in a sense a part of him. When you live like that for a long time, you gradually lose track of what it is you yourself really want out of life

You know what it’s like when you’re trying to fall asleep and it only makes you more wide awake?

You’re optimistic one moment, only to be racked the next by the certainty that it will all fall to pieces. And in the end it does.

A gentleman is someone who does not what he wants to do, but what he should do.

Everytime you see a flood like that on the news you tell yourself: That's it. That's my heart.

Waiting for your answer is one of the most painful things I have ever been through. At least let me know whether or not I hurt you.