I watched the edges of the leaves slowly unfold, fluttering in the breeze. "How long did you wait?" It would've been unbearably romantic if he'd had he courage to look into my face and say it, but instead, he dropped his eyes to the ground and scuffed his boot in the leaves- countless possibilities for happy days- on the ground. "I haven't stopped.

names are a way to keep people in your mind

a life is measured by moments like these

He was a patient with a diagnosis that he couldn't understand.

Sam, I really want to buy a red coffee pot, if they exist," Grace said. "I'll find you one

Life's pain. You just have to get over as much of it as you can. -Isabel Culpeper

Of course he would count the time that we'd been two entirely different species.