Be yourself. Be true to that, to your heart. Patience. See what happens if you step back instead of bounding forward.

Three weeks hadn't changed Cop Central. The coffee was still poisonous, the noise abominable, and the view out of her stingy window was still miserable. She was thrilled to be back.

If you love someone, when it's the most real, the most important thing in your life, it's not enough to coast. You need to dig in those footers, start building on that base. You want something to last, you put your back into it.

If something isn't special, then it's ordinary.

... a man's plans are meant to be changed for a beautiful woman.

Oh, God. God, isn't that perfect? He's Dad. He's Dad with a layer of nerd. Solid, steady, chipping away so patiently, you don't even know you've had your shields hacked down until you're defenseless. It's the type." "You're not in love with a type, you're in love with a man," Penny corrected. "Or you're not.

A woman with romance in her life lived as grandly as a queen, because her heart was treasured.