"I wanted to hold happiness in reserve, like a bottle of champagne. I postponed it because I was afraid, because I overvalued it, and because I didn't want to use it up, because what do you wish for then? That possibility, that I was intimidated by getting what I wanted, is the hardest one for me to consider, which might mean it is the likeliest."

"I sometimes remember driving back from the Brewers game, how I believed I would never love anyone more than I loved Henry. In a sense, I may have been right: I can't imagine ever again feeling that infatuated and free of doubt. I think Henry may have been the first and last person about whom I believed, If I can get him to love me, then everything else will be all right. That I am no longer that naive is both a loss and a gain."

- The Man of My Dreams, Curtis Sittenfield

"Remember what is important to you."

Christianity without discipleship is Christianity without Jesus Christ." -Dietrich Bonhoeffer

One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes. -Eleanor Roosevelt
We are the choices we have made - Meryl Streep
In the long run, we only hit what we aim at. -Thoreau