Laurie

“If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself.”
― Albert Einstein

“Don’t leave me,” he whispers.
“Oh, for crying out loud—no! I am not going to go!” I shout and it’s cathartic. There, I’ve said it. I am not leaving.
“Really?” His eyes widen.
“What can I do to make you understand I will not run? What can I say?”
He gazes at me, revealing his fear and anguish again. He swallows. “There is one thing you can do.”
“What?” I snap.
“Marry me,” he whispers.”
― E.L. James, Fifty Shades Darker

“Once there was a tree, and she loved a little boy.”
― Shel Silverstein, The Giving Tree

“If you look for perfection, you'll never be content.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina