Right now its hard to imagine that it is raining anywhere in the world.

When I first met you thats what I remember. I looked up at the sky and thought Im going to love this person because even the sky looks different.

Thus with my lips have I denounced you while my heart bleeding within me called you tender names.It was love lashed by its own self that spoke. It was pride half slain that fluttered in the dust. It was my hunger for your love that raged from the housetop while my own love kneeling in silence prayed your forgiveness.

Till I loved I never lived.

I finally know the difference between pleasing and loving obeying and respecting. It has taken me so many years to be okay with being different and with being this alive this intense. xxvi

To love is easy to be in a relationship is extremely difficult.

Time is too slow for those who wait too swift for those who fear too long for those who grieve too short for those who rejoice but for those who love time is eternity.

Nothing in life is worthturning your back onif you love it.

Sometimes love is a surprise an instant of recognition a sudden gift at a sudden moment that makes everything different from then on. Some people will say thats not love that you cant really love someone you dont know. But Im not so sure. Love doesnt seem to follow a plan its not a series of steps. It can hit with the force of nature--an earthquake a tidal wave a storm of wild relentless energy that is beyond your simple attempts at control.

Absence is to love what wind is to fire it extinguishes the small it inflames the great.