Tori Smith

“we live for the quiet, intimate moments that mark not our calendars but our hearts:”
― Robert Dugoni, The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell

“We are so lucky to have our children, even for a little while, but we take them for granted. We make the stupid assumption that as long as we are here, they will be, too, though that’s never been part of the contract.”
― Jodi Picoult, Mad Honey

“But loving somebody isn’t perfection and good times and laughing and making love. Love is forgiveness and patience and faith and every once in a while, it’s a gut punch.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Daisy Jones & The Six

“The more times we’ve been hurt, the harder it is to see love right in front of us, or to accept love into our hearts and truly believe in it. And if you cannot accept love, you can never really feel it.”
― Kristin Harmel, The Sweetness of Forgetting