“Pushing through fear was what eventually set you free.”

“Hope is possibly the only inexhaustible resource on earth.”

“In so many ways, for so many people, freedom was still an illusion. Barrie thought of the statistics she had read about how many women and children were still enslaved all over the world. Now not t...”

“Family is always a mirror. You can hide from other people, you can even hide from yourself, but your family is going to reflect what youre doing right back at you.”

“You didnt find strength when you couldnt live without it. You found it when you had someone or something you loved so much that it forced you to stretch the edges of yourself further than you thoug...”

“The hardest part of changing things is knowing how much needs changing,”

“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...”

“I was afraid. Of getting hurt in other ways. To be truthful, I still am."His thumb stroked her cheek. "I would never hurt you.""I don't think you can promise me that." She squeezed his bruised fing...”

“Every night, I laid awake with your memories flooding through my eyes with the hope to be with you when sleep arrived.”

“The way to my heart shattered when you left me, but I was glad because your memories were invulnerable, locked inside my heart.”

“Darling, if I take your breath away, I will give you mine.”

“I will love you when you are a still day.I will love you when you are a hurricane.”

“I want to make you hold onto that bag while I bury myself in you so hard and so deep you don't know your own name. -Nick Rixey”