All any of us wanted really was to know that we counted. That someone elses life would not have been as rich without us here.

I think you can love a person too much.You put someone up on a pedestal and all of a sudden from that perspective you notice whats wrong - a hair out of place a run in a stocking a broken bone. You spend all your time and energy making it right and all the while you are falling apart yourself. You dont even realize what you look like how far youve deteriorated because you only have eyes for someone else.

People always say that when you love someone nothing in the world matters. But thats not true is it You know and I know that when you love someone everything in the world matters a little bit more.

When you love someone you say their name different. Like its safe inside your mouth.

I wondered about the explorers whod sailed their ships to the end of the world. How terrified they must have been when they risked falling over the edge how amazed to discover instead places they had seen only in their dreams.