I think we deserve a happily-ever-after." "If anyone ever did, it's us.

If you loved someone, really loved them, would you let them go?

Someone real," I hear myself saying. "Someone who never has to pretend, and who I never have to pretend around. Someone who's smart, but knows how to laugh at himself. Someone who would listen to a symphony and start to cry, because he understands music can be too big for words. Someone who knows me better than I know myself. Someone I want to talk to first thing in the morning and last thing at night. Someone I feel like I've known my whole life, even if I haven't.

Some women are meant to change the world while others are meant to hold it together.

a guardian ad litem... GAL is appointed by a court to be a child's advocate during legal proceedings that involve a minor. You don't have to be a lawyer to be trained as a GAL, but you have to have a moral compass and a heart. Which, actually probably renders most lawyers unqualified for the job.

No one gets to start where they left off; it just doesn't work that way.

If you didn't remember something happening, was it because it never had happened? Or because you wished it hadn't?