Bad things happen to good people all the time. It sucks. It's not fair but then much of life isn't fair. It's how you live that matters. It's how you deal with the bumps in the road.

You can't control everything. You can't control how someone feels about you. Or what makes them tick. You can only control how you react, how you act, how you think and feel.

No amount of saying ‘I love you’ and ‘I trust you’ makes it true when it isn’t.

Some crushes just never went away. They built, instead, into something permanent, obsessive and all consuming.

I'm getting the impression that women, in any form, scare you." He shrugged. "They're the more violent species. And unpredictable. I'd rather take on a wild boar. You can't shoot women.

I want babies too," he said huskily. "Daughters as beautiful as you are.

I'm so exhausted and yet I feel like I'll never sleep again.