“the hope is smallbut it is everything.”

“every choice i have ever made after you existedhas been dependent on exactlyhow close i can have you next to meand how long i can get you to stay.”

“i'm so hookedon how your mind works,on what you notice,on everything that excites you.i'm so caught up inhow you see the world,how you see everythingand still offer up your lovefor all to take it.y...”

“we talk of plans that are going to happen.we talk of the future,as if we know we will last.there is a sort of comfort in that.”

“i open for you like a flower.i let you in like a new day.”

“you came in slowly like the fog and consumed me.”

“love is my thighs,this belly,my eyes.love is my speech,the search,my cry.love is myself in the mirror.i will see love every time.”

“Love isn't about what you do for me. Love for me is where I see myself in relation to you.”

“What I am or am not wearing does not correlate with my competency as a professional, a mother, or a feminist role model. My clothes do not define me and nor does my nakedness. I define me.”

“Remember that self-doubt is as self-centered as self-inflation. Your obligation is to reach as deeply as you can and offer your unique and authentic gifts as bravely and beautifully as you're able.”

“Sometimes the only thing we can do for people is pray.”

“You simply cannot know the depth of your magnificence without the contrast of life.”

“Only once in your life, I truly believe, you find someone who can completely turn your world around. You tell them things that youve never shared with another soul and they absorb everything you sa...”

“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”

“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there i...”