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

The highway of life was littered with the roadkill of those who didn't know when to change lanes.

Miles and years become suddenly invisible when you find yourself back where you started from, as if you've learned nothing and you are once again the person you once were.

They say that not matter how old you become, when you are with your siblings, you revert back to childhood.

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.

To give up too easily leads to regret, yet trying and then failing can lead us to second chances if we do not accept it as a failure, but a chance to learn.

But there is room now in my heart for more memories, carved by a letting go that I could find only by coming home to a place I'd never been.