Having this, and losing it, made it even sweeter the second time around.

Love doesn't let you walk away clean. Love is messy. Love takes a piece of you before it's done.

—R.K. Lilley in Lovely Trigger

He smiled his best smile, the one that ruined me for every other smile in the world.

—R.K. Lilley in Bad Things

Lots of days, it just felt like the world had lost its color, and the only things that defined my life were the things I'd lost.

—R.K. Lilley in Lovely Trigger

I've found that often the quality you see in successful people is knowing when to take the initiative, and being quick about it. I've never sat around, waiting for someone to tell me to take charge. I just do it.

—R.K. Lilley in Bad Things

Some of the sweetest moments in life come from second chances.

—R.K. Lilley in Lovely Trigger

Nostalgia is a way of remembering people and places and things, and wishing things hadn't changed. It has a sweetness to it.

—Linda Lael Miller in Creed's Honor

Sweet is made sweeter after we eat something bitter.

—Tarryn Fisher in F*ck Love

The sweetest noise on earth, a woman's tongue; A string which hath no discord.

—Bryan Procter

Those were the days when dreams were sweet and life was sweeter still.

—Lisa Schroeder in Chasing Brooklyn