If you've lived through it, you already know there are no words that will ever come close to describing it, and if you didn't - you will never understand.

We make messes of our lives, but every now and then, we manage to do something that's exactly right. The challenge is figuring out which is which.

But mostly I wondered why the head could move so swiftly while the heart dragged its feet. I still loved him. It felt like anything else permanent that has gone missing; a lost tooth, a severed leg. You might know better, but that doesn’t keep your tongue from poling at the hole in your gum, or your phantom limb from aching.

If she spoke, she would tell him the truth: she was not okay at all, but horribly empty, now that she knew what it was like to be filled.

If you don't know there's an alternative, you can't miss it

The ability to find sparks may be buried so deep in you that you stop believing there's a God. Until someone comes along, with so much light in her that you can't help but see your own, and when you're together,that light grows even brighter.

It doesn't take a whole long life to realize that what we deserve to have, we rarely get.