Just so you know: if this ever happens to you, you will not be ready.

Life was what happened when all the what-ifs didn't.

Raw love, like raw heartache, could blindside you.

You can widen the feet of a compass, but they are still attached at the top; you can spin them away from each other, but you always wind up where you started.

Losing Chloe had been like reading a wonderfulook only to realize that all the pages past a certain point were blank.

The problem was , you never heard anyone say,"wow, check out the brain on that babe.

I could tell her from personal experience that when people we love make choices we don't always understand them. But we can go on loving them, just the same. It isn't a matter of comprehension. It's forgiveness. But all this took me a lifetime to discover, and where has it gotten me?... Some lessons can't be taught, they simply have to be learned.