... it’s a blessed thing to love and feel loved in return. - E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly

"Make your lives a masterpiece, you only get one canvas."

"You cannot hinder someone’s free will, that’s the first law of the Universe, no matter what the decision."

"... how terrible is the pain of the mind and heart when the freedom of mankind is suppressed!"

"Falling in love is very real, but I used to shake my head when people talked about soul mates, poor deluded individuals grasping at some supernatural ideal not intended for mortals but sounded pretty in a poetry book. Then, we met, and everything changed, the cynic has become the converted, the sceptic, an ardent zealot."

"While she could hardly fathom what had just happened to her that night, she reached some conclusions before she fell asleep, certain things now made perfect sense; Moon River didn’t sound so syrupy, mistletoe wasn’t such a bad idea, and perhaps dating was not such a frivolous waste of time after all."