But holding people away from you, and denying yourself love, that doesn’t make you strong. If anything it makes you weaker, because you are doing it out of fear.

Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. That’s why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.

So, I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we’ll never know most of them. But even if we don’t have the power to choose where we come from, we can still choose where we go from there. We can still do things.

…and the world we live in will be either better or worse, depending on whether we become better or worse. And that’s where the power of love comes in. Because when we love, we always strive to become better than we are.” 

We mistake sex for romance. Guys are taught that pushing a girl against a wall is romance. Sex is easy; you can do it with anyone, yourself, with batteries. Romance is when someone you like walks into a room, and they take your breath away. Romance is when two people are dancing, and they fit together perfectly. Romance is when two people are walking next to each other, and all of the sudden they find themselves holding hands, and they don’t know how that happened.

We just stopped loving each other, which is more devastating than having a specific reason

For you, I was a chapter. For me, you were the book.

Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.