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“Every Night and every Morn
Some to Misery are born.
Every Morn and every Night
Some are born to Sweet Delight,
Some are born to Endless Night.”
― William Blake

“Dear Camryn,

I never wanted it to be this way. I wanted to tell you these things myself, but I was afraid. I was afraid that if I told you out loud that I loved you, that what we had together would die with me. The truth is that I knew in Kansas that you were the one. I’ve loved you since that day when I first looked up into your eyes as you glared down at me from over the top of that bus seat. Maybe I didn’t know it then, but I knew something had happened to me in that moment and I could never let you go.

I have never lived the way I lived during my short time with you. For the first time in my life, I’ve felt whole, alive, free. You were the missing piece of my soul, the breath in my lungs, the blood in my veins. I think that if past lives are real then we have been lovers in every single one of them. I’ve known you for a short time, but I feel like I’ve known you forever.

I want you to know that even in death I’ll always remember you. I’ll always love you. I wish that things could’ve turned out differently. I thought of you many nights on the road. I stared up at the ceiling in the motels and pictured what our life might be like together if I had lived. I even got all mushy and thought of you in a wedding dress and even with a mini me in your belly. You know, I always heard that sex is great when you’re pregnant. ;-)

But I’m sorry that I had to leave you, Camryn. I’m so sorry…I wish the story of Orpheus and Eurydice was real because then you could come to the Underworld and sing me back into your life. I wouldn’t look back. I wouldn’t fuck it up like Orpheus did.

I’m so sorry, baby…

I want you to promise me that you’ll stay strong and beautiful and sweet and caring. I want you to be happy and find someone who will love you as much as I did. I want you to get married and have babies and live your life. Just remember to always be yourself and don’t be afraid to speak your mind or to dream out loud.

I hope you’ll never forget me.

One more thing: don’t feel bad for not telling me that you loved me. You didn’t need to say it. I knew all along that you did.

Love Always,
Andrew Parrish”
― J.A. Redmerski

“...I watch her so much that I forget it's raining at all.”
― J.A. Redmerski, The Edge of Never

“But, if for some reason we're not closer, if something has gotten between us, please, I'm begging you…don't give up on me. Stay. Stay with me. Work it out with me. Just don't leave me…please.”
― S.C. Stephens, Effortless

“It's amazing how the things you remember forever are the things you'd rather forget and the things you desperately want to grasp onto seem to slip away like sand in the wind.”
― Jessica Sorensen, The Coincidence of Callie & Kayden

“Little Bird, our love has been hard-earned from the very beginning. It is more precious to me than anything on earth. I can't just let go of it. And I won't stop fighting for it." ~ Ian”
― Willow Aster, True Love Story

“My life didn't begin until you breathed into it. ~ Ian”
― Willow Aster, True Love Story

“I suppose I might never have known or believed that love could be so strong if I hadn't seen it dragged through this hell. Now I know that love can truly endure anything.”
― Willow Aster, True Love Story

“I've never been at home anywhere, but I am with you.”
― Willow Aster, True Love Story

“You are in me. In the deepest part of me. Deeper than my memories, my unconscious thoughts. Deeper than my ever-changing emotions. You are in the place right next to where I keep my faith in God (a faith that I won't let go of now, in spite of it being shaken many times, from without and within). You're deep in me.”
― Willow Aster, True Love Story

“You may have to break this heart before you can use it. You may have to take it apart and start all over with me. I know it hurts to change, but I don't want to stay the same. Take me. Break me. Do whatever it takes to make me what you need me to be”
― Willow Aster, True Love Story

“I know you deserve to be happy. I know you deserve someone… better, but I’m selfish. I want you. I want you bad enough to try and be someone better.”
― C.J. Roberts, Epilogue

“Love does not always begin or end the way we wish it would.”
― C.J. Roberts, Epilogue

“Misery I understand. Happiness is terrifying. - Caleb”
― C.J. Roberts, Epilogue

“For Caleb's kittens”
― C.J. Roberts, Epilogue

“The choices we make in our life don't have to define us. It's what we learn from them that's important.”
― A. Meredith Walters, Light in the Shadows

“Forgive. Such a small word. Only seven letters but they carry the weight of the world.”
― A. Meredith Walters, Light in the Shadows

“The thing about shadows is that they're not all darkness. You need to have light to have shadows. So just look for it.”
― A. Meredith Walters, Light in the Shadows

“You are everything good in my life. Even when I thought all I had was the darkness, you were there. And you gave me something to live for. I couldn’t let you go. No matter how hard I tried. I know now that’s because to lose you would be losing the very best part of myself.”
― A. Meredith Walters, Light in the Shadows

“When I was drowning, she became my air. In the cold, she became my warmth. In the dark, she became my light.”
― A. Meredith Walters, Light in the Shadows

“I can only say, with one hundred percent certainty that I love you. That I live and breathe for you. That I would lay down my life a million times over for you. And no matter what happens tomorrow, next week, next year, my heart will always be yours.”
― A. Meredith Walters, Light in the Shadows

“Ignoring things didn’t make them go away. It only made it harder to face them when they finally came around to beat the shit out of you.”
― A. Meredith Walters, Light in the Shadows

“Our heads have a nasty habit of ruining what can make us happiest. And there are times in our lives when you have to put aside what we think is best and do with what you feel is best.”
― A. Meredith Walters, Light in the Shadows

“There is more beauty inside you than in anyone I have ever met. These pictures don’t lie. I won’t ever forget you. Or stop loving you. You can ask me to. You can tell me to move on. But I won’t. And I never will. Just don’t forget how beautiful we were. How beautiful we can still be.
Please.”
― A. Meredith Walters, Light in the Shadows

“I don’t want to wake up ten years from now regretting that I let this slip through my fingers. I don’t want to waste another moment without you in my life.”
― A. Meredith Walters, Light in the Shadows

“My love for this beautifully broken, yet slowly healing boy, made me strong.”
― A. Meredith Walters, Light in the Shadows

“She glanced over her shoulder as she made her way into the restaurant, as though to make sure I was still waiting for her.
You crazy girl, don’t you know I’d wait for you forever?”
― A. Meredith Walters, Light in the Shadows

“I pulled out the small velvet box I had kept in my pocket all day and got down on one knee.
And then she did the craziest thing.
She fell down to her knees in front of me.
“I’m the one who’s supposed to be on my
knees here. You’re ruining the moment”
― A. Meredith Walters, Light in the Shadows

“And he asked her to share his forever.”
― A. Meredith Walters, Light in the Shadows

“I still hung onto the hope that my broken knight would gallop back into my life and sweep me off my feet.”
― A. Meredith Walters, Light in the Shadows