But there's a story behind everything. How a picture got on a wall. How a scar got on your face. Sometimes the stories are simple, and sometimes they are hard and heartbreaking. But behind all your stories is always your mother's story, because hers is where yours begin.

Tension of opposites.

But common sense has no place in first love and never has.

Fear is how you lose your life...a little bit at a time...What we give to fear, we take away from...faith.

He almost told her everything right then, that very moment. But you grab a moment, or you let it pass. He let it pass.

What she mostly wanted, he learned, was the same thing many people want--someone to notice she was there.

there are a few rules I know to be true about love and marriage: If you don't respect the other person, you're gonna have a lot of trouble. If you don't know how to compromise, you're gonna have a lot of trouble. If you can't talk openly about what goes on between you, you're gonna have a lot of trouble. And if you don't have a common set of values in life, you're gonna have a lot of trouble. Your values must be alike.' - Morrie Schwartz