When you love someone - when you create a child with him - you don't just suddenly lose that bond. Like any other energy, it can't be destroyed, just channeled into something else.

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

Just so you know, when they say "once upon a time"....they're lying. It's not once upon a time. Its not even twice upon a time. It's hundreds of times, over and over, every time someone opens up the pages of this dusty old book.

In the space between yes and no, there's a lifetime. It's the difference between the path you walk and the one you leave behind; it's the gap between who you thought you could be and who you really are; its the legroom for the lies you'll tell yourself in the future.

I wondered why the head could move so swiftly while the heart dragged its feet.

Although you hadn't asked why, it had less to do with you not noticing than with you not wanting to hear the answer.

She had never been a pretty crier. She sobbed the way she did everything else - with passion and excess.