“...so i will greet youin a wayall loved thingsare meant to be greetedwith a tear in my heartand a poem in my eye.”

“i have laughedmore than daffodilsand cried more than June.”

“An animal in pain is the saddest thing on Earth.”

“your handtouching mine.this is howgalaxiescollide.”

“To fall in love with someone's thoughts - the most intimate, splendid romance.”

“The splendid thingabout falling apartsilently...is thatyou can start overas many timesas you like.”

“The exhausted earth groaned and quivered under the monotonous glare of the sun. Spirals of heat rose from the ground as if from molten lava. A panting lizard crawled painfully over the fevered rock...”

“It's hard to think of the divide where I grew up as a watershed. The creeks are dry most of the year, rainfall is undependable at best, and folks in one river system are always trying to steal wate...”

“We tend to take summer's vitality for granted, when in actuality it is just one prolonged drought, or disease, away from decimation.”

“But in that moment I understood what they say about nostalgia, that no matter if you're thinking of something good or bad, it always leaves you a little emptier afterward.”

“The music has teased and tickled me in an empty space that the most vacuous.”

“My life is never empty because my heart is always full.”

“Nothing compares to the feeling that you get when you are in love.”

“Love has no limits, which is why we fall impulsively into the depths of our feelings.”

“Love is Future End that you live in you in present to forgot something opposite of your expectations.”