You don’t ask for no diamond rings, no delicate string of pearls

Well I got bruises on my feet, he says. And I got cuts on my hands. So who's gonna help me stand? Yeah, who's gonna help me stand? Well I got wounds that won't heal, she says. Just as deep and just as long. So I'm going to make you strong. Yes, I'm going to make you strong.

With my fingertips, I trace on your bare skin all of the things I'd like to say but cannot speak. You mean everything. There not quite words enough, to tell you all the things that you've become for me.

"Only once in your life, I truly believe, you find someone who can completely turn your world around. You tell them things that you’ve never shared with another soul and they absorb everything you say and actually want to hear more. You share hopes for the future, dreams that will never come true, goals that were never achieved and the many disappointments life has thrown at you. When something wonderful happens, you can’t wait to tell them about it, knowing they will share in your excitement. They are not embarrassed to cry with you when you are hurting or laugh with you when you make a fool of yourself. Never do they hurt your feelings or make you feel like you are not good enough, but rather they build you up and show you the things about yourself that make you special and even beautiful. There is never any pressure, jealousy or competition but only a quiet calmness when they are around. You can be yourself and not worry about what they will think of you because they love you for who you are. The things that seem insignificant to most people such as a note, song or walk become invaluable treasures kept safe in your heart to cherish forever. Memories of your childhood come back and are so clear and vivid it’s like being young again. Colours seem brighter and more brilliant. Laughter seems part of daily life where before it was infrequent or didn’t exist at all. A phone call or two during the day helps to get you through a long day’s work and always brings a smile to your face. In their presence, there’s no need for continuous conversation, but you find you’re quite content in just having them nearby. Things that never interested you before become fascinating because you know they are important to this person who is so special to you. You think of this person on every occasion and in everything you do. Simple things bring them to mind like a pale blue sky, gentle wind or even a storm cloud on the horizon. You open your heart knowing that there’s a chance it may be broken one day and in opening your heart, you experience a love and joy that you never dreamed possible. You find that being vulnerable is the only way to allow your heart to feel true pleasure that’s so real it scares you. You find strength in knowing you have a true friend and possibly a soul mate who will remain loyal to the end. Life seems completely different, exciting and worthwhile. Your only hope and security is in knowing that they are a part of your life." -Bob Marley

"She waited for the train to pass. Then she said, 'I sometimes think that people’s hearts are like deep wells. Nobody knows what’s at the bottom. All you can do is imagine by what comes floating to the surface every once in a while.'" -Haruki Murakami

The way you make me feel is like, smelling fresh cut grass or being in the back of a convertible under the stars. Or returning home from a long trip or just driving with no destination in the summer. It's like the feeling you get when you get an ‘A’ on your report card and your parents tell you how proud they are. Or when you hear your family laugh together or the whooshing of a tunnel when you drive with the windows down. It's like when you’re outside on a hot summer day and you have a cold glass of water or when you talk to an old friend after a month or two, yet the two of you are still as close as ever. It's like the feeling you get when you hear your favorite childhood song on the radio for the first time in years, you turn it up and feel so alive. Or laying in bed watching a snow storm, knowing you don’t have to get up for hours and get just lay in the warmth of your comforters for hours. Its the way your stomach flip flops during your first true kiss, or how your body feels when you take off in an air plane for the first time. Or when you drive around in the front seat of car who belongs to the boy you like, and even though you should feel scared beyond control because he's driving so fast and stupid, yet you feel so safe and alive. Yeah, that feeling. The way you make me feel, feels good to me.

You cant play on broken strings

I’m not always as confident as I seem. There are many nights and many days when all I want is to be held. I love being held. Always. Sometimes I don’t want to talk about what is bothering me. Sometimes I just want a hug. Someone who will let me cry. I like when boys cry in front of me - when people aren’t afraid to show what they’re really feeling. I don’t like when people run from their true feelings because it doesn’t do anyone any good. I wear my heart on my sleeve, but I am not naive. I know what it feels like to be completely broken and I am all too familiar with what it means to be hurt. I know what it’s like to see something funny and not laugh. I’ve been taken advantage of, used, and abused. My feelings have been blatantly disregarded. But I still believe that all people are good at heart. And my trust in people has not diminished. To be completely honest, I hope it never does. Ever.

His words were like heaven in my hurricane

I'm not going to lie, though I do it often. When someone matters, i'll tell them the truth, just like the way I only smile when it's needed. I don't overuse things, because things easily lose their meaning that way. I think you're an amazing person. You're smart, clever, witty, incredible with words and with the colours that flutter from each stroke of your paintbrush. When I look in your eyes, I see the sky. You're still a bird trapped in that cage of yours, and one day, i'll be there to see you fly
-Sleeping with ghosts

I can't really offer you much. But I can offer you that empty spot of carpet right next to me. I can offer you late nights, of you and I sitting together. I can share with you my mind, and my words, and my music. And maybe it'll move you, like you move me.

In some ways you're pretty lucky. You opened your heart, you put yourself out there; you were ready to make that leap. Im envious. I wish I knew what it felt like - to find someone who makes you wanna swim across the east river in January
-Ugly Betty

I had forgotten what it felt like to find
someone you can't get enough of.

while others prayed I only moved my lips

“We laughed and laughed, together and separately, out loud and silently, we were determined to ignore whatever needed to be ignored, to build a new world from nothing if nothing in our world could be salvaged, it was one of the best days of my life, a day during which I lived my life and didn’t think about my life at all.”

"I want to grow old without facelifts. I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face I've made. Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you'd never complete your life, would you? You'd never wholely know you."

We are only asked to love, to offer hope to the many hopeless. We don't

get to choose all the endings, but we are asked to play the rescuers. We

wont solve all mysteries and our hearts will certainly break in such a

vulnerable life, but it is the best way. We were made to be lovers bolds

in broken places, pouring ourselves out again and again until we're called

home

-To write love on her arms

I hope you know
 you're beautiful;
today, tomorrow
and for every day
 I remember you.

I meant what I said, I don't want money, I just want to be wonderful.

But when the strong were too weak to hurt the weak, the weak had to be

strong enough to leave

-Milan Kundera

use somebody

life isn't about keeping score. it's not about how many people call you, and it's not about who you've dated, are dating, or haven't dated at all. it isn't about who you kissed, what sport you play, or which guy or girl likes you. it's not about your shoes or your hair or the color of your skin or where you live or go to school. in fact, it's not about grades, money, clothes, colleges that accept you or not. Life isn't about if you have lots of friends, or if you are alone, and it's not about how accepted or unaccepted you are. life just isn't about that. but life is about who you love. and who you hurt. it's about how you feel about yourself. it's about trust, happiness, and compassion. it's about sticking up for your friends and replacing inner hate with love in a way that could never have been achieved otherwise.