Love hurts. There is nothing as painful as heartbreak. But in order to learn to love again you must learn to trust again.

I don't know. I really don't. While I was in the living room, I kept asking myself what I really wanted in life." She squeezed his hand. "And do you know what the answer was? The answer was that I wanted two things. First, I want you. I want us. I love you and I always have.

What mattered most was knowing that love was mine to give, without strings or expectations.

Say I'm a bird! Say it! Say it now!" "You're a bird." "Now say you're a bird too." "If you're a bird, I'm a bird.

I gave you the best of me, he'd told her once, and with every beat of her son's heart, she knew he'd done exactly that.

Grown-ups always say that things are complicated.

You have no idea how much the last few days have meant to me," I began. "Meeting you has been the best thing that's ever happened to me.