"Life, a good life, a great life is about "Why not?" May we never forget it."

"Things work out the way they're meant to"

"Sometimes, if you aren't sure about something, you just have to jump off the bridge and grow your wings on the way down."

"You see the magic in a fairy tale, you can face the future"

"Sing Me no songs tell me no tales cry me no tears, but remember me kindly."

"You'd be surprised how fast things happen when the right man comes along."

"Lust is temporary, romance can be nice, but love is the most important thing of all. Because without Love, lust and romance will always be short-lived."

"Not everyone is meant to stay forever."

".. that terrible feeling that you're not good enough to be loved by the people you love most, and eventually by anyone else."

"People do strange things sometimes, when they feel hopeless."

"Love is quite violent. It is so painful at times, so devastating. And there is nothing worse or better. We find the highs and lows equally unbearable. But then again, the absence of them is more so."

"Love is messy. If you really love someone, you can't avoid the pain. People die, people leave, things change, but sometimes it all works"

"If it's meant to be, they'll find a way to make it work eventually."

"Never lose hope, and if you can, find the courage to love again."

"Long-distance relationships are another way of avoiding intimacy."

"No man can take your freedom from you. They can limit your mobility, but that's about all they can do"

"He was gone, "and "she was broken hearted, that was all that mattered."

"Some things in life are worth waiting for."

"She didn't want to let go of him, or the baby, but sometimes life made you give up what you loved most."

"Sometimes life will make you give up what you love most."

"There was something much greater she needed to feed her soul, and perhaps one day soon she would go..."

"Don't worry about it. The right thing will come at the right time."

"Love meant something to her, she dreamt of it, thought of it, wrote of it. It was the one thing in life that had eluded her completely."

"...there were no guarantees in life, only promises and whispers."

"You don't need to show off your body to catch a boy's eye. You'd best learn that early on, or you'll be bringing home the worst sort of boy."

"Feelings "aren"'t sensible. Sometimes you fall in love with people who don't make sense. And the ones who do make sense turn out to be the wrong ones."

"Nothing is forever, but there's a continuing stream of people who go through our lives and continue with us... Nothing just stops and stays... But it flows on... Like a river..."

"This is fusion, when two people become one. They are so close and so well suited to each other that they blend together. They merge and can't live without each other after that."

"Don't make decisions out of fear. They never get yo anywhere you want to go."

"...But sometimes life made you give up what you loved most. Sometimes there were no compromises or bargains."

"You have more balls than a Christmas tree."

"And the worst thing she had heard were the words he hadn't said, the fact that he hadn't loved her."

"... It's hard to make changes. Things get so comfortable and you don't want to move. Maybe it would do you good to be a little uncomfortable for a while, and do something different..."

"There was nothing you couldn't do if you wanted it bad enough, and were willing to work hard enough to get it."

"I don't need a man to be happy. I had a great one , that was good enough. I don't expect to find another one like him, and why settle for anything less? I'm going ot be perfectly content alone.--Marya"

"I don't want to have to give up me, in order to be his."

"...maybe some people just aren't meant to be in our lives forever. Maybe some people are just passing through..."

"Sometimes, I think one should only live in the present. The past is only a heavy burden to carry with you. And yet… it’s so hard to let them go… to forget… to move ahead…"

"If you let life pass you by now, it won't ever come back. You don't get another chance"

"Her writing was her only escape, her only means of survival. It was a respite from a cruel world, despite seemingly comfortable surroundings."

"Not all forms of abuse leave bruises."

"It's like some people just come through our lives to bring us something, a gift, a blessing, a lesson we need to learn, and that's why they're here..."

"We are always better than before when those we love inflict wounds upon us."

"There's a lid for every pot... You Just have to find yours. -Avery"

"Victoria heard across the wedding reception dance floor "You're loveable"!"

"When you can bring yourself to write about it one day, you will find it all less painful. It is a catharsis of sorts, but the process can be brutal. Don’t do it until you’re ready."

"For the moment, my life is a little schizophrenic."

"They just had to be patient. Destiny would bring them what they needed, yet again."

"What’s ready? Was Steinback ready? Hemingway? Shakespeare? Dickens? Jane Austen? They just did it, didn’t they?"

"Who doesn't need hope in their lives: hope that something can change, that someone cares, that not only bad things happen unexpectedly but good things can happen to us too?"