It’s a rare opportunity when a person removes all the layers and allows you to see who they are at the core. Sometimes we don’t even get that chance with our own family or friends, and maybe it’s easier to let someone you don’t have any emotional connection with see that side of you. There’s no fear of rejection, ridicule, or withholding love. We had nothing to lose.

What good is an edge if you can’t push someone over it?

People are more than who they allow you to see.

You move your arms a lot when you talk. Just remember we’re holding hands, and that makes us look like a couple of idiots out here playing London Bridge.

Secrets are truths that show what we’ve been through – what we’ve survived.

That was why I loved romance novels. The book ends and there’s nothing to spoil it. In real life, love isn’t about the fairy tale. Love is about not being alone. Sometimes we settle for less because that’s all there is.

There is something pure and honest in the way a man treats a woman when he thinks she isn’t aware. It shows the kind of man he truly is.

Family isn’t blood – it’s who has your back.

You never miss a where. You only miss a when. If I returned, it would not be the same. Home is not a place – it’s the people you love and the time that you inhabit.

And boom goes the dynamite.