I've counted all your scars, I've numbered them as my own.

Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.     -Sara Zarr

I suppose sooner or later in the life of everyone comes a moment of trial. We all of us have our particular devil who rides us and torments us, and we must give battle in the end.

I don’t ask myself what did I live for, said Carlene strongly. That is a man’s question. I ask whom did I live for.    -Zadie Smith

I have learned that if you must leave a place that you have lived in and loved and where all your yesterdays are burried deep—leave it anyway except a slow way, leave it the fastest way you can.        -Beryl Markham

Feelings can be like wild animals—we underrate how fierce they are until we’ve opened their cage.

-Richard Paul Evans

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