There is how we were before, and how we are now, and the time between is spent choosing which doors to open, and which to close.

You have to get through the rain if you're ever going to see a rainbow.

The word that came to me now was "defiant." Because a person had to be defiant to be able to stand amid the wreckage of her life and instead of shaking a fist, pick up a hammer.

The answers we seek aren't always the answers we want, are they? But knowing the truth is what helps us sleep at night.

Mama?" "Yes, Emmy." She traced a rivulet of rain with her finger as it made its journey down the glass. "How do you know when it's been long enough?" Emmy could sense her mother smiling into the phone. "When you relaize that love doesn't have a time span. Only pain does. I think sometimes it's hard to distinguish between the two, so we just hold on to both of them like they're inseparable.

Adversity in life does not rob your heart of beauty. It simply teaches it a new song to sing.

when you lose your sails, row.