“Always want you, Chessiebomb. Always.”

“Wesley went everywhere with me from then on. I even wrapped him in baby blankets and held him in my arms while grocery shopping, to keep him warm during the first cold winter. Occasionally someone would ask to see "the baby," and when I opened the blanket, would leap back shrieking, "What is that?! A dinosaur?" Apparently, the world is full of educated adults with mortgages and stock portfolios who think people are walking around grocery stores with dinosaurs in their arms.”

“Love isn’t obvious until you’re in it. It’s not a punch in the face that leaves you reeling. Love is gradual and sneaky. It grows like weeds between the cracks of a hundred average moments.”

“Do forgive me.... I've no reputation of my own, and I forget they matter.”

“Never let the things you want make you forget the things you have.”

“You have risen from the ashes before. The only way to survive, " he said, "is to believe you always will.”

“If you don't believe in yourself, who will?' ~Maybeck”

“It seems my heart is made of tissue paper; I wish the world would handle it more delicately.”