Love is blind, there was no doubt about it. In Tara's case it was also deaf, dumb, dyslexic, had a bad hip and the beginnings of Alzheimer's

When God closes one door, He slams another in your face

Waiting to be 'better' is the wrong approach. It's learning to live with it.

The feel of them (books) and the smell of them. A bookshop was like an Aladdin's cave for me. Entire worlds and lives can be found just behind that glossy cover. All you had to do was look." Claire (Watermelon)

My truth is that what doesn't kill you makes you weaker rather than stronger, although it makes you wiser.

As you know, I don't believe in fear, just an invention by men so they get all the money and good jobs.

I wished there was some kind of switch on my brain. That I could turn it off in the same way that I could turn off the television. Just click it off and immediately empty my mind of all these images and worrying thoughts. And simply leave a blank screen. Or if I could just remove my head and put it on the bedside table and forget about it until morning. And then attach it again when I needed it.