Virginia Woolf said that writers must be androgynous. I'll go a step further. You must be bisexual.
Does loving someone mean you want them to be safe? Or that you want them to be able to choose?
I realize now how much courage it takes to choose the life you want, whatever that might be.
Growing apart doesn't change the fact that for a long time we grew side by side; our roots will always be tangled. I'm glad for that.
In the end you can't always choose what to keep. You can only choose how you let it go.
Every minute you spend with someone gives them a part of your life and takes part of theirs.
It is strange how we hold on to the pieces of the past while we wait for our futures.
I think escapism is really important.
I'm going to focus on speed, doing little things like my turns and my starts - just speed.
When I pray, I pray believing that God will speak to me and give me an answer to that prayer. That's what a calling is. If I pray, a calling means that I feel like I have a sense from God.
If you get into the mental habit of relating what you're reading to the basic structure of the underlying ideas being demonstrated, you gradually accumulate some wisdom.