Peter was, simply, what a person would look like if you boiled down the most raw emotions and filtered them of any social contract. If you hurt, cry. If you rage, strike out. If you hope, get ready for a disappointment.

She became whoever she needed to be to survive,but she never let anyone else define her.

How could you go about choosing something that would hold the half of your heart you had to bury?

Add love, and all the lines between right and wrong were bound to disappear.

But sometimes, in order to win, you have to make sacrifices.

Here's a news flash for the ladies: for every one of you who thinks we all want a girl like Angelina Jolie, all skinny elbows and angles, the truth is, we'd rather curl up with someone like Charlotte - a woman who's soft when a guy wraps his arms around her; a woman who might have a smear of flour on her shirt the whole day and not notice or care, not even when she goes out to meet with the PTA; a woman who doesn't feel like an exotic vacation but is the home we can't wait to come back to.

People change, but only if you give them room to do it.