But say you do find the right people - how do you love them without smothering them?...How do you not suffocate them with all the love you've built up in their absence?

I didn’t know who she was, but I had this fire inside me for someone I knew existed.

But say you do find the right people - how do you love them without smothering them?...How do you not suffocate them with all the love you've built up in their absence?

It's true the people we meet shape us. But the people we don't meet shape us also, often more because we have imagined them so vividly. There are people we yearn for but never seem to meet.

Life just swallows you up, doesn't it?Just swallows you up with its everyday things

I want to do things for people they will never forget. Maybe that’s the best thing I can do in life.

Royal Young's writing is that rare blend of irony and beauty.