Sometimes I guess you need to lose everything before you realize what's really important.

You ain’t dead yet, so you ain’t done.

I know what it is to hope and pray so hard that you're sure God will answer your prayer just so you'll stop asking.

Moving on doesn't mean forgetting.

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.

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.

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