Time is an optical illusion- never quite as soild or strong as we think it is

The person may have a scar, but it also means they have a story

I think there are two different oceans - the one that plays with you in the summer, and the one that gets so mad in the winter.

Those eyes, they've got a history with mine. They were the first things I saw when I came to, after being hit in the skull with a baseball thrown by Patrick at Little League. They were the fortification I needed at sixteen to ride the chairlift at Sugarloaf, although I am terrified of heights. For almost my whole life, they've told me I'm doing all right, during moments when it was not in my own power to answer.

I have only known her for two years. But if you took every memory, every moment, if you stretched them end to end-they'd reach forever.

Marina sighs. "Love's a tidal wave," she says. "Because it sweeps you off your feet?" I ask. "No. Because it sucks you under and you drown.

sometimes words are not big enough to contain all the feelings you are trying to pour into them.