To gain your heart's desire you have to lose some part of your old life, your old self. To do that you have to have courage; without it, you can't make the leap. And if you don't make the leap you have only three choices: You can hate yourself for not taking the chance, you can hate the person from whom you've sacrificed your happiness, or you can hate the one who offered you happiness, and blame them for your lack of courage, convince yourself it wasn't real.

Nill illigitamus carborundum

That was the true terror of love, that you could love with your whole heart, your whole soul, and lose both

I will bathe in your warmth ma petite. Roll you around me until my heart beats only for you. My breath will grow warm from your kiss.

was a clear, pale blue like the eyes of a Siberian husky dog. Human beings just didn't have eyes like that.

Still it might be nice, once in a while, not to have to choose between evils. Just once, couldn't I choose the lesser good?

There comes a point when you either embrace who and what you are, or condemn yourself to be miserable all your days. Other people will try to make you miserable; don't help them by doing the job yourself.