No matter where my reckless soul takes me, baby you save me.

I'm getting married!
Hope you guys enjoy this! <3

she didn't feel thirty. but then again, what was being thirty supposed to feel like? when she was younger, thirty seemed so far away, she thought that a woman of that age would be so wise and knowledgeable, so settled in her life with a husband and children and a career. she had none of those things. she still felt as clueless as she had felt when she was twenty. -cecelia ahern.


it was as if they had leaped over the arduous cavalry of conjugal life and gone straight to the heart of love. they were together in silence like an old married couple wary of life, beyond the pitfalls of passion, beyond the brutal mockery of hope and the phantoms of disillusion: beyond love. for they had lived together long enough to know that love was always love, anytime and anyplace, but it was more solid the closer it came to death. -gabriel garcia marquez.


when i think of you and me and what we shared, i know it would be easy for others to dismiss our time together as simply a by-product of the days and nights we spent by the sea, a "fling" that, in the long run, would mean absolutely nothing. that's why i don't tell people about us. they wouldn't understand, and i don't feel the need to explain, simply because i know in my heart how real it was..how real this is.


just because a love can't last doesn't mean it wasn't real, that it didn't change you. you can't go back, you won't stay the same, but i promise that one day, you won't even want to. -anais escobar.


i love this part. this is the part where your heart races a bit, your stomach feels like it's free floating, and your face has a slight smile on it that can't be wiped off. this is the part where things are about to get really good, and you know they're about to get really good, and sometimes that's more satisfying than when you get whatever it is you're waiting for. -scarlett schmaus.


i realized the thing about a guy you've spend your whole life loving from afar is that even though he's read, you've really made most of him up. -the geography of girlhood.


someone with a great sense of humor is the most important thing, and someone who really supports me in everything i do. i don't ever want to make an excuse for trying to work hard and having my own life. i love a guy that supports that and loves that. -lauren conrad.


take it from a guy; if you're in love with somebody, you will swim the stream, you will climb the mountain, you will slay the dragon. you're going to get to her, somehow, some way. -dr. phil.


love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion, it is not the desire to mate every second minute of the day, it is not lying awake at night imagining that he is kissing every cranny of your body. no, don't blush, i am telling you some truths. that is just being "in love", which any fool can do. love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident." -louis de bernieres.


i'm not sorry to be the person i am today, and to have the life i have now. even though it's not what i thought i wanted for my future a year ago, it is what i want now. -nancy werlin.


thank you for coming into my life and giving me joy, thank you for loving me and receiving my love in return. thank you for the memories i will cherish forever. but most of all, thank you for showing me that there will come a time when i can eventually let you go. -nicholas sparks.


some things don't last forever, but some things do. like a good song, or a good book, or a good memory you can take out and unfold in your darkest times, pressing down on the corners and peering in close, hoping you still recognize the person you see there.


we meet. we always meet, somehow we're always thrown together, no matter where i go, no matter how i try to distance myself from you. it never matters. you always find me. -lauren kate.


suddenly i had this feeling, this absolute certainty, that i was never going to be able to let him go. it was as simple and as hard as that. i had clung to him like a barnacle all these years, and now i couldn't cut away. it was my own fault, really.


but i think it's very healthy to spend time alone. you need to know how to be alone and not be defined by another person. -olivia wilde.


people always fall in love with the most perfect aspects of each other's personalities. who wouldn't? anybody can love the most wonderful parts of another person. but that's not the clever trick. the really clever trick is this: can you accept the flaws? can you look at your partner's faults honestly and say 'i can work around that. i can make something out of it'? because the good stuff is always going to be there, and it's always going to be pretty and sparkly, but the crap underneath can ruin you.


you think that fairy tales are only for girls? here's a hint-ask yourself who wrote them. i assure you, it wasn't just the women. it's the great male fantasy-all it takes is one dance to know that she's the one. all it takes is the sound of her song from the tower, or a look at her sleeping face. and right away you know-this is the girl in your head, sleeping or dancing or singing in front of you. yes, girls want their princes, but boys want their princesses just as much. and they don't want a very long coutrship. they want to know immediately. -david levithan.


yes, i was infatuated with you; i am still. no one has ever heightned such a keen capacity of physical sensation in me. i cut you out because i couldn't stand being a passing fancy. before i give my body, i must give my thoughts, my mind, my dreams. and you weren't having any of those.


love is the only thing that we can carry with us when we go, and it makes the end so easy. -little women.


we just stood there, looking at each other, saying nothing. but it was the kind of nothing that meant everything. -jenny han.


i did not understand how quickly one could fall in love, and i regarded almost as an affliction that one would eventually recover from. however, i now recognize that it is a force that reaches into every fiber of our body, and that it is something not to be resisted, but embraced.

Even though you put me through all this pain, I still love you.

I've had a lot going on recently. Between work, moving in a week, my dad dying, and falling in love, life has been a crazy ride. Things are starting to look up though. I hope you enjoy this post. <3

Sometimes you have to stop thinking so much, and go where your heart takes you.

Endings are never easy. I always build them up so much in my head that I can't possibly live up to my expectations, and I always end up disappointed. I'm not even sure why it matters to me so much the way things end. I guess it's because we all want to believe everything we do is important. That people hang onto our every word, that they care what we think. The truth is, you should consider yourself lucky if you even occasionally get to make someone, anyone, feel a little better. As my mind drifts to faces I've seen before, I was taken to a memory of my family, of coworkers, of lost loves, even of those who have left us. And as I rounded that corner, they all come at me in a wave of shared experience. And even though it felt warm and safe, I knew it had to end. It's never good to live in the past too long. The future can be whatever I want it to be. And who's to say, this isn't what happens? Who can tell me that my fantasies won't come true, just this once?

Some things should be done just for the fun of it.

Missing someone feels like the earth is crumbling beneath you. You are falling with nothing to grab. And it comes when you don't expect it, and it never stops coming.

It's never something huge that changes everything, but instead the tiniest details. Irrevocably tweaking the balance of the universe while you're trying not to lose sight of the big picture.

Have the courage to fail big and stick around. Make them wonder why you're still smiling.

She had come back into his life like a sudden flame; blazing and streaming into his heart. He stayed up all night contemplating the certain agony he knew would be his if he were to lose her twice.

There are certain people who aren't meant to fit into your life, no matter how bad you want them to.

Sometimes in your life, you need lust. You need the adrenalin rush of knowing that it's not forever, and that you're not committed to anything.

Run away with me.

some mysteries i will never understand. the way the earth rotates around the sun three minutes short of every day. or the way the dead are gone by putting down the phone or turning a corner. the future, that's another whopper. we can never know what we can never know. except that whoever you are and whoever i am, you made it all right to be me.

some people meet the way the sky meets the earth, inevitably, and there is no stopping or holding back their love. it exists in a finished world, beyond the reach of common sense.

all a girl really needs is a hand to hold & a heart to understand.

Maybe, you're just scared because for once someone actually wants to be with you.

To him, she seemed so beautiful, so seductive, so different from ordinary people that he could not understand why no one else's heart was wild with the breeze stirred by the sighs of her veils, why everyone did not go mad with the movement of her braid, the flight of her hands, the gold of her laughter. He has not missed a single one of her gestures, not one of the indications of her character, but he did not dare approach her for the fear of destroying the spell.

I love her for what she dared to be, for her hardness, her cruelty, her egoism, her perversness, her demoniac destructiveness. She would crush me to ashes without hesitation. She is a personality created to the limit. I worship her courage to hurt, and I am willing to be sacrificed to it. She will add the sum of me to her.

I know it makes sense for me and him to just break up now and just live our seperate lives and not have to worry about missing each other all the time. But when I think about that I get sick, physically sick. Like, I seriously throw up. I need to be with him, even if I cant, like, be with him.

Yes, losing your heart's desire is tragic. But gaining your heart's desire? It's all you can hope for. This year, I wished for love. To immerse myself in someone else and wake a heart long afraid to feel. My wish was granted. And if having that is tragic, then give me a tragedy, because I wouldn't give it back for the world.

I had jumped off the edge, and then, at the very last moment, something reached out and caught me midair. That something is what I define as love. It is the only thing that can keep a man from falling. Powerful enough to negate the laws of gravity.

All she knows is highways and broken hearts.

"My mission in life is not merely to survive, but
to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some
compassion, some humor, and some style."
- Maya Angelou

His words struck a little too close to the truth

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." 
- Mark Twain

Experience is a brutal teacher, but you learn. My God, do you learn.

"Even more, I had never meant to love him. One thing I truly knew - knew it in the pit of my stomach, in the center of my bones, knew it from the crown of my head to the soles of my feet, knew it deep in my empty chest - was how love gave someone the power to break you" 
- Stephanie Meyer

When you let go of the past, something better comes along.

When you invest your love, you invest your life.

I've had a crazy month. Been working ridiculous amounts of hours, Went from getting ready to move back to Oregon to staying in beautiful Lake Tahoe, and I've been spending all of my free time with the most amazing human being I've ever met in my life. He pushes me to my limits. In a good way. He makes me realize things I probably would have never realized without him. I think he's the one.

And the new addiction of mine?
skydiving.

Best time of my entire life.

Here's your post loves.

One.

We are who we are. People don't change.

two.

Once you chose hope, anything is possible.

Three.

Love is a temporary madness.
It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides.
And when it subsides you have to make a decision.
You have to work out whether your roots
have become so entwined together
that it is inconceivable that you should ever part.
Because this is what love is.
Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement,
it is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion.
That is just being "in love" which any of us can convince ourselves we are.
Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away,
and this is both an art and a fortunate accident.
Your mother and I had it,
we had roots that grew towards each other underground,
and when all the pretty blossom had fallen from our branches

we found that we were one tree and not two.

Four.

So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them, But even if we don't have the power to chose where we came from, we can still chose where we go from there. We can still do things.

Five.

You know, it’s been said that we just don’t recognize the significant moments in our lives while they’re happening. That we grow complacent with ideas or things or people, and we take them for granted, and it’s usually not until that thing is about to be taken away from you, that you realize how wrong you’ve been, that you realize how much you really need it, how much you love it.

Six.

I guess what I'm trying to say is that you are there, in everything I am, in everything I've ever done, and looking back, I know that I should have told you how much you've always meant to me

Seven.

And after a while you learned that you don't need anyone else in order to survive.
No one else is ever going to always be there. No matter what they say or what they
promise you, you just gotta suck it up, accept it, and keep on holdin' on