But I want you around even when I don't need you. —Jeremy Richards

It ain't how long you know somebody that means anything. It's what that person mean to you in your heart.

Some wounds go so deep that you don't even feel them until months, maybe years, later.

But there are times when a tree can no longer withstand the pain inflicted on it, and the wind will take pity on that tree and topple it over in a mighty storm. All the other trees who witnessed the evil look down upon the fallen tree with envy. They pray for the day when a wind will end their suffering. I pray for the day when God will end mine.

How can I love you if I don't know what hurts you?

Goodness was not a trait you acquired; it was a value you practiced when you were on the verge of doing evil.

To write and not tell the truth? That would be death for any writer. But more, it would be death to the imagination. And if the imagination dies, what would happen to the souls of children?