Dena

“It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emerson in His Journals

“I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.”
― Anaïs Nin

“When someone shows you who they are believe them the first time.”
― Maya Angelou

“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest