Katie

“To be trusted is a greater compliment than to be loved.”
― George MacDonald

“The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not to twist them to fit our own image. If in loving them we do not love what they are, but only their potential likeness to ourselves, then we do not love them: we only love the reflection of ourselves we find in them”
― Thomas Merton, No Man Is an Island

“When she was a child,
my love carried a road map in her hand
the way other girls carried handkerchiefs.”
― Roman Payne, The Wanderess

“Opium: that terrible truth serum. Dark secrets guarded for a lifetime can be divulged with carefree folly after a sip of the black smoke.”
― Roman Payne, The Wanderess