Things are not magical because they've been conjured for us by some outside force. They are magical because we create them.

Remember that at any given moment there are a thousand things you can love.

Life tells you to take the elevator, but love tells you to take the stairs.

Kindness connects to who you are, while niceness connects to how you want to be seen.

The older I get, the more I lose my ability to breathe.

A photograph it a souvenir of a memory. It is not a moment. It is the looking at the photograph that becomes the moment. Your own moment.

The words that matter always stay.

motif, n. You don’t love me as much as I love you. You don’t love me as much as I love you. You don’t love me as much as I love you.

It was a mistake," you said. But the cruel thing was, it felt like the mistake was mine, for trusting you.

You have to believe there are kisses and laughs and risks worth taking.

Things that matter are not easy. Feelings of happiness are easy. Happiness is not. Flirting is easy. Love is not. Saying you’re friends is easy. Being friends is not.

Sometimes it takes a heartbreak to shake us awake & help us see we are worth so much more than we're settling for.

The air of compromise is rarely appreciated fully by men of principle. C. Vann Woodward

When we think carefully about the past, we get to know and understand not just what happened in the past but what really went into things that happened in the past.

To do what is right can be a dirty messy business" S. R. Tabone. Made it up for my Godfifa novel.

The war had changed him, inside and out, in ways he could never have fathomed.

A life coach does for the rest of your life what a personal trainer does for your health and fitness.

I have never been insecure, ever, about how I look, about what I want to do with myself. My mum told me to only ever do things for myself, not for others.

Drinking is a fast-forward button; it makes you feel close to a person so quickly.

We are surrounded by data, but starved for insights.

I don't really understand why when I'm not making music, I feel like I can't breathe.