“You never fully appreciate what you had until you don’t have it anymore”

“Miss someone until they come back, or until you come back, until their absence in your life becomes something to be avoided at all costs. Miss them until you don’t have to anymore, until you’re reunited in your favorite booth in your favorite restaurant ordering your favorite meal, miss them until it feels like you never left. Or miss them until you can’t anymore, until the things you miss are identified and cataloged as things and not a person, until you figure out that easy company and long talks and unblinking, all-knowing eye contact will find you again the way they found you the first time. Miss someone until you don’t.”

“I realized that I could never really function fully on this earth until I understood this: Until you know WHOSE you are, you will never know WHO you are.”

“You don’t have a home until you leave it and then, when you have left it, you never can go back.”

“Until you see the cross as that which is done _by_ you, you will never appreciate that it is done _for_ you.”

“We don't appreciate what we have until it's gone. Freedom is like that. It's like air. When you have it, you don't notice it. ”