But we are all sorry when loss comes for us. The test of our character comes not in how many tears we shed but in how we act after those tears have dried.

You want it to feel like a surprise. You want to keep him guessing whether he'll make you smile entirely so that when you do, he will feel like he's been given a gift.

Why does life carry some people on the crest of the wave while others drown beneath the water?

These will be my last moments of peace. . . . From now on, my love. . . will bring nothing but chaos.

Things change, and not always for the better.

There are natural and imprescriptible rights which an entire nation has no right to violate. —MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE

I don't think unhappiness is fated.