Years fly by, but the heart stays in the same place.
They say possesions own you. Not so. Loved ones own you. You are forever held hostage once you care so much.
Dreams never die. Sometimes you think they are dead, but they are just hibernating lie some old bear. And, if the dream has been hibernating for a long time, that bear is going to wake up grumpy and hungry.
He truly believed that no one could love him, and no matter who you are, that hurts. It made you insecure. It made you want to hide and build fences.
Ambition is natural when you don’t have anything. You know what you’re driving for.
Right now, even though he’d been dead for years, she wanted to collapse in her father’s big arms and hear him tell her that everything would be all right. Do we ever outgrow that need?
I ordered a cheeseburger and a beer from a waitress who looked as though she wanted to be in one of those want-to-get-away? commercials. She called me hon. I love when a waitress calls me hon.
Those who had easy answers, be they on the right or the left, were always wrong. The world is complex. It is never one-size-fits-all.
Someone is always worse off than you. That never seemed like much comfort.