You need to worry less about what everyone else thinks and focus on what makes you happy

Is there something wrong?” he asked. She gave a short negative motion with her head. And then words, so sweet, like a cool northern breeze blowing off the lake. “You could hold me now.” It was almost his undoing. “Ah baby.

Perhaps I’m tired of waiting for something I may never find.

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

Words are just words. The evidence is in how you act, how you react.

Caelen?” “Aye, lass?” “You were right.” “What was I right about?” “Kissing. ’Tis a most wondrous thing.” She could sense his smile.

He did and said all the right things. Things that went straight to her heart, and worse, they inspired the one thing that she'd given up along time ago. Hope.