Your Absence

“Your absence has not taught me to be alone,

 it merely has shown that when together 

we cast a single shadow on the wall.”

~ Doug Fetherling

I Hope We'll Be Friends Forever

“I hope we'll be friends forever,

 together we'll always be. 

I don't think you understand 

just how much you mean to me. 

And one day when we part our ways, 

we'll think back to the past 

and think about how happy we are 

'cause our friendship will always last.”

~ Bridget Davis

But In The Real World

“But in the real world, you couldn't really 

just split a family down the middle, mom on one side, 

dad on the other, with the child equally divided between.

 It was like when you ripped a piece of paper into two: 

no matter how you tried, the seams never fit exactly right again.

 It was what you couldn't see, those tiniest of pieces, 

that were lost in the severing, and their 

absence kept everything from being complete.”

~ Sarah Dessen, What Happened to Goodbye

Caring About Someone

“Caring about someone isn't complicated. 

It isn't easy. But it isn't complicated, either. 

Kinda like lifting the engine block out of a car.”

~ Jim Butcher, Small Favor

I Don't Understand Dating

“I don't understand dating... 

and the other things that people do... 

all I know is that you ought to find the one you recognize. 

The one who gives you four arms, four legs, 

four eyes, and has the other half of your heart. 

There's only one of those, 

so what are all the other things for? 

Like dating?”

~ C. JoyBell C.