A few minutes later, my eyes began to feel a bit droopy, but I vaguely noticed that Anissa was whispering something.
The lead-up to the moment was magical in every respect, but a part of me was, and still is, uneasy about the whole thing for many reasons.
In addition to my new outlook on life, in some absurdly simple way, Anissa gave me several new reasons to live. Above all, I had to see her again and find out what, if anything, would happen between her and me.
But I did feel the vertigo of death’s invitation, beckoning me towards the dark waters below. Only a newfound perspective and desire steadied my wavering soul. I came to realize, just in time, that suicide was far too easy – and obscenely cowardly – after someone I knew, not even half my age, had been through so much worse and still marched gloriously on.
She was somehow this damaged creature I had fortuitously encountered along my path and now cared about as a result. Granted, I didn't cause her harm, as I did with Icarus, but I somehow began to feel responsible for her welfare.
The danger of prolonged despair is its tendency to cloud the gift of a new beginning that every tomorrow offers. --Anissa's Redemption
The funny thing about destiny is that you can't predict it, and you can't prevent it.- Leslie
Listen, I know everything you're saying is true. Ellie does need a good man. She needs someone steady. Someone who can offer her a life full of love and security.Unfortunately, she wants me.- Mason
We can't be sad for her," she murmured. "Only for ourselves at having to say good-bye.
Cottage cheese, broken down into its simplest form, is milk that has been curdled to mimic the cellulite its consumption is meant to banish.
Real love should draw no blood from the loved and buckets from the lover.
Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
Loving someone liberates the lover as well as the beloved. And that kind of love comes with age.
If you are too busy to love, you are too busy to live; if you are too busy to live, you are too busy to love.
It is better to lose your pride with someone you love rather than to lose that someone you love with your useless pride.
Why are some things harder to lose than others? because of love, of course. The more you love something the harder it is to lose.
“It is better to lose your pride with someone you love rather than to lose that someone you love with your useless pride.”
“Friends will keep you sane, Love could fill your heart, A lover can warm your bed, But lonely is the soul without a mate.”
Necessity is the mother of delusion. For true love to exist there must be nothing that is necessary to it. Lovers have to live happily ever after, no matter what happens.
For the first time, I lived alone... in a luxury apartment on Sunset Strip. For a few days I loved the idea, but I got lonely and restless.