Maybe he wasn't perfect, but he was mine. Our lives were in sync. Our goals for the future aligned.

Loving someone doesn't mean you have to love everything they do. But it does mean you forgive them a little more often, a little more easily.

—Melanie Harlow in Some Sort of Happy

It's the strangest feeling—to love someone this way.

—Melanie Harlow in Floored

We have history. That has weight. It has meaning. And you of all people know that just because something is in the past doesn't mean it's dead and buried.

—Melanie Harlow in Forked

Though pleas'd to see the dolphins play, I mind my compass and my way.

—Matthew Green

The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

—Zeno

In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it.

—Robert A. Heinlein

Do not turn back when you are just at the goal.

—Publilius Syrus

The big secret in life is that there is no big secret. Whatever your goal, you can get there if you're willing to work.

—Oprah Winfrey