" You have been my friend. That in itself is a tremendous thing. "

— E.B. White

" Years from now, our past will be a story – a story of long days and lonely nights, hard work and lack of sleep. We’ll live each day having intimately known the pain of being apart. We’ll appreciate and embrace our time together, knowing how lucky we are to have made it through, and we’ll find solace in the promise of a future together. "

— Me

" Silence is one of the great arts of conversation. "

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

" It is a serious thing – just to be alive – on this fresh morning – in this broken world. "

— Mary Oliver

" A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again. "

— Enid Bagnold

" To hurt is as human as to breathe. "

— J.K. Rowling