Family, Friends, and a Bed of Nails
What do you do when the only person who can make you stop crying is the person who made you cry?
-Anonymous
The heart is forever inexperienced.
-Henry David Thoreau
Often it is the most deserving people who cannot help loving those who destroy them.
-Hermann Hesse
Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.
-Albert Camus
A friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.
-Len Wein
Good friends are hard to find, harder to leave, and impossible to forget.
-Anonymous
When it hurts to look back, and you're scared to look ahead, you can look beside you and your best friend will be there.
-Anonymous
The reward of suffering is experience.
-Aeschylus
The pain is unrelenting; one does not abandon, even briefly, one's bed of nails, but is attached to it wherever one goes.
-William Styron
I've lived too long with pain; I won't know who I am without it.
-Orson Scott Card
Take this sorrow to thy heart, and make it a part of thee, and it shall nourish thee till thou art strong again.
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
i owe most/all of these icons to my superb twin, lisa. she rocks socks.