“I had evolved a year too soon, and it nearly broke me”

“With him I couldn’t be anything but myself and that scared the crap out of me, because I had never existed like that before.”

“I see you,” he said ever so softly. I knew exactly what he meant, because I too saw myself for the first time.”

“His kisses fed the slow burn of an ever-growing flame.”

“A great man shows his greatness by the way he treats little me”

“Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are”

“Bright, heroic, tender, true and noble was that lost treasure of my heart, who faithfully accompanied me in all the rocky ways and climbings; and I am forever poor without her.”