Ashley

“Security in a relationship lies neither in looking back to what it was in nostalgia, nor forward to what it might be in dread or anticipation, but living in the present relationship and accepting it as it is now.”
― Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Gift from the Sea

“One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach—waiting for a gift from the sea.”
― Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Gift from the Sea: 70th Anniversary Edition

“Every step, even a tentative one, counts.”
― Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Gift from the Sea

“But the bond—the bond of romantic love is something else. It has so little to do with propinquity or habit or space or time or life itself. It leaps across all of them, like a rainbow—or a glance.”
― Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Gift from the Sea: 70th Anniversary Edition