Tricia

“Don't allow anyone to hold you back from expressing your feelings. Maybe you just can't stand a chance of losing some friends, but if you must be truly you, you must be you! Nothing else!”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, The Book of Maxims, Poems and Anecdotes

“I know what love is and it is friendship, set afire.

Love is easy. Love is chemistry—a science lab. Love is as simple as connecting this together with that. Her brilliant eyes and my heated heart.

But this is not love.

Not yet.

Genuine love is friendship. Genuine love resides only in the present moment. Genuine love is everyday. Genuine love feels no need to entertain the space away. Genuine love is up, genuine love is down and yet genuine love never wavers.

Love is something else entire: it is caring. It is arguing, but with curiosity—it is giving an inch when the other is certainly wrong—it is teasing, it is empathy, it is respect, it is admiration each morning.”
― Waylon H. Lewis, Things I Would Like To Do With You

“By birth you have been blessed, and it is time to acknowledge that blessing.”
― Kiera Cass, The Selection

“Look closer. You probably have friends in places you never expected.”
― Kiera Cass, The Crown