He did and said all the right things. Things that went straight to her heart, and worse, they inspired the one thing that she'd given up along time ago. Hope.

You hold your head up. You submitting to me doesn't mean you're anything less...the very last thing I want is for you to be some mindless puppet.

Most of all, I want you to know without a doubt that I've got your back. And your front. And your sides. I've got all of you and I'm not letting go.

Bad things happen to good people all the time. It sucks. It's not fair but then much of life isn't fair. It's how you live that matters. It's how you deal with the bumps in the road.

Words are just words. The evidence is in how you act, how you react.

You need to worry less about what everyone else thinks and focus on what makes you happy

Ahh, you’re a man used to getting his own way.” “Always,” he said in a husky growl.

Seeing you happy is the best gift I could ever ask for.

I'm getting the impression that women, in any form, scare you." He shrugged. "They're the more violent species. And unpredictable. I'd rather take on a wild boar. You can't shoot women.

Maybe I didn't always know what I was missing, but it was you. Always you.

Some crushes just never went away. They built, instead, into something permanent, obsessive and all consuming.

Today is not the end but today is a new beginning.

Never let the salt of your tears be tasteless in grief.

the best of" show was completely gone and we were in big trouble, except we didn't really care.

Everybody says I am NOBODY, and you know NOBODY is Perfect.

You can't please everyone, so proudly exclude people.

I discovered martial arts, first judo and then karate.

It is only after an unknown number of unrecorded labors, after a host of noble hearts have succumbed in discouragement, convinced that their cause is lost; it is only then that cause triumphs.

When it comes to finding available men in Minnesota, the odds are good, but the goods are odd.

Poems are always interested in what Ivan Illich called 'shadow work,' not least because that is no small part of their own way of working.

The God that can be named is not God.