"Quiet places & soft moments"

"It is no bad thing to celebrate a simple life."

- J. R. R. Tolkien

"You should act, be brave, seize life by the scruff of the neck. Believe me, little one, you should only regret inactivity, indecisiveness, hesitation. You shouldn't regret actions or decisions, even if they occasionally end in sadness and regret."

"I was a very lonely child and it's funny but the first word that comes to my head is "starved". I felt starved of affection, starved of love and I felt that it wasn't OK to ask for it. Maybe there was a sense that if I deserved it, it would be there. There must be something I'd done which meant I didn't deserve it."

"Memories are dangerous things. You turn them over and over, until you know every touch and corner, but still you'll find an edge to cut you."

"You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving. The great acts of love are done by those who are habitually performing small acts of kindness. We pardon to the extent that we love. Love is knowing that even when you are alone, you will never be lonely again and the great happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves and even loved in spite of ourselves."

"I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be."

"Such wounds to the heart will probably never heal .But we cannot simply sit and stare at our wounds forever"

"Everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own head. Always. All the time. That story makes you what you are. We build ourselves out of that story."