13

I hope that someday, somebody wants to hold you for twenty minutes straight, and that’s all they do. They don’t pull away. They don’t look at your face. They don’t try to kiss you. All they do is wrap you up in their arms, without an ounce of selfishness in it.

“You are so brave and quiet I forget you are suffering.”

“Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.”

“A person doesn’t know true hurt and suffering until they’ve felt the pain of falling in love with someone whose affections lie elsewhere.”

“It was her religion to make the best of everything.”

“Do you think the universe fights for souls to be together? Some things are too strange and strong to be coincidences.”

“All these things happen in one second and last for ever.”

“Words don’t come out when you’re hurt that deeply.”

“Trust that your soul has a plan, and even if you can’t see it completely, know that everything will unfold as it is meant to.”

“How am I ever to apologize to myself sufficiently?”

“I still don’t belong to anyone - I am mine.”

“I think lots of nice things about you during the day, but I’m too tired to tell you them.”