“New York has an energy that takes root inside of you. Even a transplant like me gets to know the different boroughs, like they're living, breathing organisms. There's nowhere else like it. The city becomes a character in your life, a love you can't take out of you. The mysteriously human element about this place can make you fall in love and break your heart at the same time.” LoveNew YorkHeartbreakNew York City Book:Before We Were Strangers Source: Before We Were Strangers
“It was about you... what I wrote. It was all about you." His bottom lip began to quiver. "I know," I said, my voice shaky. I started to cry then. There was no holding back. "I loved it, every word. It was so beautiful.” Romantic Book:Swear on This Life Source: Swear on This Life
“Tears had poured from her eyes without any change in her facial expression. It’s pure pain and pure surrender when your soul cries without any fight from your body and that’s how I knew she was deeply affected.” SoulPainTearsCrying Book:Sweet Thing Source: Sweet Thing
“I knew in five fucking minutes that I had to know you, that I needed you in my life. I’ve never felt that way about anyone, ever. Whatever happens will be up to you, but I’ll be a different man if I can’t have you. I will never breathe as deeply as I did when I was with you. I’ll never see the range of color on a perfectly cloudless sky. I will never smell anything as sweet as you or hear a voice that fills my heart up as much as yours does. That night in my truck, when I had the low, I knew without a doubt, even though I had never been in love before . . . I knew that I was in love with you.” Love At First SightSwoonSweet Hero Book:Nowhere But Here Source: Nowhere But Here
“Maybe it was fate that I sat next to her that day, or serendipity, divine intervention, who knows? However you look at, I got seated next to the first girl to ever really steal my heart. I was in love from that moment on.” Fate Book:Sweet Thing Source: Sweet Thing
“We can't always control our circumstances, who are parents are, where we live, or how much money we make, but in those rare moments when we can shape our fate, when we do have the power to make our own happiness, we can't be too scared to do it.” CourageFate Book:Swear on This Life Source: Swear on This Life
“There will always be something a little off, but like a three-legged dog, you’ll learn to walk again.” Moving On Book:After the Rain Source: After the Rain
“Poetry is just evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.” LoveLifePoetryAsh Book:Before We Were Strangers Source: Before We Were Strangers
“It’s the only way to know you’re really in love, when you ask the question would it be harder to watch him die, or to know he’ll watch me die? Is there more mercy in being the one who does the watching or in being the one who does the dying? It’s when you realize what mercy-killing actually means, it’s when you actually care to the point of tormenting worry. It’s not roses and white horses, it’s fucking brutal and it can send a person running for the hills. To love is brave.” LoveMercyBraveDie Book:Sweet Thing Source: Sweet Thing
“They projected an illusion of warmth with their home-cooking and hand-stitched quilts, yet underneath the facade was an institutional rigidity, as if they were running an orphanage where children would be fed and cared for but never loved. Love was such a key ingredient in molding humans, yet it was inaccessible to kids inside of the system.” ChildrenFamilyParentsFoster Care Book:Swear on This Life Source: Swear on This Life
“„Sadašnjost je naša. Na nama je da iskoristimo ovu sekundu, sada i ovdje, ovaj trenutak prije sljedećega. To je jedini besplatni dar koji nam svemir nudi. Prošlost nam više ne pripada, a budućnost je samo fantazija, nikad zajamčena. No sadašnjost nam pripada. Jedini način da ostvarimo tu fantaziju jest da prihvatimo ovaj trenutak.” InspirationalLife LessonsLife QuotesInspirational QuoteInspirational Quotes About Life Book:Before We Were Strangers Source: Before We Were Strangers
“„Ne možete ponoviti trenutak kad ste nekome prvi put obećali ljubav ili kad ste prvi put osjetili da vas netko voli. Ne možete ponovno proživjeti taj osjećaj straha, divljenja, nesigurnosti, strasti i želje jer se nikad ne dogodi dvaput. Tražite ga ponovno do kraja života, ali nikad se ne ponovi. To ne znači da ne možete voljeti drugu osobu ili nastaviti sa životom; samo znači da se jedan spontani trenutak, sekunda u kojoj ste se odlučili na to, kad vam je srce lupalo, a glava bila prepuna pitanja Što ako? – taj trenutak – neće više nikada dogoditi na isti način. Nikada neće biti intenzivan kao prvi put.” LoveRomanceLove QuotesRomance Novels Book:Before We Were Strangers Source: Before We Were Strangers
“You have to teach your heart and mind how to sing together... then you'll hear the sound of your soul” Inspirational Book:Sweet Thing Source: Sweet Thing