The ocean will swallow you whole and burp you out and not notice you were even there.

Life is a gift. Don't forget to live it.

Everything's a risk. Not doing anything is a risk. It's up to you.

For the first time in a long time, I want more than I have.

Flowers for Algernon again? she asks. Doesn't that book always make you cry?One day it won't, I say. I want to be sure to be reading it on that day.

From so high above it, the world seems ordered and deliberate.But I know it's more than that. And less. It is structured and chaotic. Beautiful and strange.

Is it always like that?" I ask, breathless. “No, ” he says. “It's never like that.” I hear the wonder in his voice. And just like that, everything changes.

Love is worth everything. Everything.

A photograph is a kind of time machine.

o•cean (ˈōSHən) n. pl. -s. 1. The endless part of yourself you never knew but always suspected was there. [2015, Whittier]

I know she's just trying to protect me, just as I was to protect myself a few short weeks ago, but her words make me aware that the heart in my chest is a muscles like any other. It can hurt.

You won't forget a woman like her, easily anyway. Once you cross paths with Magic it's hard to see life the same.

And on the days I couldn't breathe, I learned to paint air.

May God so fill us today with the heart of Christ that we may glow with the divine fire of holy desire.

No charm, no humor, no wit -- and a personality which can only be described as 'icky.' .

As leaves on the trees, such is the life of man.

Serious times require strong leadership.

I feel like people who are guarded and shut off, I feel like they should have to wear a button that says, "shut down", "guarded" or something.

I'm not alone, but I am lonely without you.

I am totally unapologetic about pop music.

Del Taco: so much food, no much money