We may not get what we want, when we want. But with a bit of perseverance and a lot of patience, we can get what we need.

This is probably the advantage of being stupid. Stupid people just do. We tend to overthink. If we could eliminate the “over” and just think, then we could do, too. Only we’d be smarter doers because we’d be thinkers.

A mother is a mother from the moment her baby is first placed in her arms until eternity. It didn't matter if her child were three, thirteen, or thirty.

Coeur qui soupire n'a pas ce qu'il desire. The heart that sighs does not have what it desires.

Sometimes if you wait too long, it's too late.

In fiction, I searched for my favorite authors, women I have trusted to reassure me than not all teenage guys are total ditwads, that the archetype of the noble cute hero who devotes himself to the girl he loves has not gone the way of the rotary phone. That all I had to do was be myself (smart, hardworking, funny) and be patient and kind and he and I would find each other. As Bea would say, this why they call it fiction.

If it's true love, then it will abide. If it was a fleeting crush, then it will turn to dust. Either way, the truth will out.