If I'm going to stand out, then I might as well stand up.

It's a lot easier to keep it going than to restart.

But hope is just a wish made by the unprepared.

I don’t think I’ve ever seen two people more head over heels for each other, but equally scared to admit it

He remembered being taken aback by not only the brash boldness of her actions, but also by her unique beauty.

She remembered her father's timeless lesson about the true definition of bravery, "...is found not in the person who is fearless, but in the one who recognizes fear and chooses to face it head on.

The passage of time did amazing things but in the augmentation of trauma and happiness. It could erase pain and heal wounds, both external and internal. But time also erased memories.

The hard times define us and how we use the memory of it defines our future.

He was now in a very small group of people who'd ever been granted access to that memory. And with it an unspoken trust was given to him.