She had been proud of his decision to serve his country her heart bursting with love and admiration the first time she saw him outfitted in his dress blues.

Although love could grow in times of peace it tempered in battle. Daddy told me once - when Id said something about how perfect his relationship with Mom was - that I should have seen the first five years of their marriage that theyd fought like hellions crashed into each other like two giant stones. That eventually theyd eroded each other into the perfect fit become a single wall nestled into each others curves and hollows her strengths chinking his weaknesses her weaknesses reinforced by his strengths.

You asked me to go out with you. I know you probably changed your mind. But you should know the answer was yes. Its always been yes when it comes to you.

You said you didnt want to get involved with methat one of us would get hurt and how you couldnt bear it. Well that just isnt good enough..Look what happens to people just living their lives. They get hurt its not fair they get hurt but they do all the time no matter how careful they are. Somebody can just just come along and hurt them for no stupid reason..

I love you more than I hate everything else.

My brain tells me it will be better to just let him go.My heart... not so much.

There hadnt been one specific moment. It was like gradualy waking up. You go from being asleep to the space between dreaming and awake and then into consciousness. Its a slow process but when youre awake theres no mistaking it. There was no mistaking that it had been love.

Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent than the one derived from fear of punishment.

He was afraid of defiling the love which filled his soul.

What is a friend if not someone you feel close to someone you like being with someone you can confide in and share pleasure with.-Jeremy Malory-