Perhaps there could be no joy on this planet without an equal weight of pain to balance it out on some unknown scale.

Yeah, it's an off day when I don't get somebody telling me how edible I smell." - Bella Swan.

The only parents in the world who don’t need sleep, and our child already sleeps through the night. Edward Cullen, Breaking Dawn, Chapter 22, p.429

We're lucky Esme thought to add an extra room. No one was planning for Ness-Renesmee." I frowned at him, my thoughts channeled down a less pleasant path. "Not you too," I complained. "Sorry, love. I hear it in their thoughts all the time, you know. It's rubbing off on me. I sighed. My baby, the sea serpent. Maybe there was no help for it. Well, I wasn't giving in.

Just like a kitten that thinks its a tiger.

I’ve chosen my life — now I want to start living it.

Just because you want something to be true doesn’t make it that way.” -The Host