Holding people away from you, and denying yourself love, that doesn't make you strong. if anything, it makes you weaker. Because you're doing it out of fear.

This was our common ground, the secret we shared but never spoke aloud.

So I just decided to relax into it, bumpy and crazy as it might be, and try for once to just go along for the ride.

There was something so heavy about the burden of history, of the past. I wasn't sure I had it in me to keep looking back.

It took a lot of work to be perfect. If you didn’t want to break a sweat, there was no point in even bothering.

Get back on that bike.

The worst thing you can do if you miss or need someone is let them know it.