A photo says, you were happy, and I wanted to catch that. A photo says, you were so important to me that I put down everything else to come watch.

I only just found you, I can't lose you now

Take it from me: love has all the lasting permanence of a rainbow- beautiful while it's there, and just as likely to have disappeared by the time you blink.

Reason number 106 why dogs are smarter than humans: once you leave the litter, you server contact with your mothers.

Africa - You can see a sunset and believe you have witnessed the Hand of God. You watch the slope lope of a lioness and forget to breathe. You marvel at the tripod of a giraffe bent to water. In Africa, there are iridescent blues on the wings of birds that you do not see anywhere else in nature. In Africa, in the midday heart, you can see blisters in the atmosphere. When you are in Africa, you feel primordial, rocked in the cradle of the world.

Life is not a plot; it's in the details.

Scars are just a treasure map for pain you've buried too deep to remember.