love doesn't follow the rules... nothing is worth having so much as something unattainable.

The best place to cry is on a mother's arms.

How far can a person go... and still live with himself.

There are two reasons not to tell the truth--becuase lying will get you what you want, and because lying will keep someone from getting hurt.

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.

They say that there are moments that open up your life like a walnut cracked, that change your point of view so that you never look at things the same way again.

It was so damn hard to find love in this world, to locate someone who could make you feel that there was a reason you'd been put on this earth. A child, I imagined, was the purest form of that. A child was the love you didn't have to look for, didn't have to prove anything to, didn't have to worry about losing. Which is why, when it happened, it hurt so badly.