Sometimes the things we really want are right in front of us. We just don't see them.

...and I realized that Garrett was right about one thing- I had flipped. Completely.

A painting is more than the sum of its parts,' he would tell me, and then go on to explain how the cow by itself is just a cow, and the meadow by itself is just grass and flowers, and the sun peeking through the trees is just a beam of light, but put them all together and you've got magic.

It was beyond embarrassing or humiliating or even mortifying. It was ego-slaying!

Julie always tried to stand beside me, or talk to me, or in some other way mortify me.

Get beyond his eyes and his smile and the sheen of his hair - look at what's really there.

Sometimes the things we really want are right in front of us. We just don't see them.