Quotes from Inglath Cooper

Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame." – Henry David Thoreau

I know that life doesn't come with guarantees. We can only live the moment that's in front of us. I believe with all my heart that we should live that moment fully, embrace it without wasting even a second worrying about what might be beyond it.

It's just a fact that once we lose our parents and grandparents, no one in our lives will ever love us like that again.

In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility. – Eleanor Roosevelt

But a week later she knew she had. And so she told herself it didn't matter, that she'd been foolish to think anything would come of it. The sooner she stopped thinking about him, the better off she'd be.

He lets the consequences of our actions play out their natural course. We tip the domino, and the track is set, each piece falling in upon itself until the end result is the only one it could have been.

Under his appreciative gaze, she felt beautiful. Powerful in the way a woman feels when a man looks at her with desire in his eyes.

Kissing should be this, an act of intimacy that signals rightness, that prompts an instant internal awareness that says, This is where I belong.

presence. "Just let it out, honey. You've been carrying this around for too long. It's okay to let go.

Love is not instant. Infatuation is instant. Love is a thing that begins with the most shallow of roots that reach the depths of our souls only after we've given ourselves up to the helplessness of it. And when it's true love, we are truly helpless.

Some people definitely have harder things happen to them, things that don't seem fair. But maybe it's about how we choose to respond to those things. To keep fighting. Or not.

But there in the middle of the crowded dance floor, his gaze held hers, said things that didn't need words for expression. The message couldn't have been more eloquent.

Every one of us has something in our lives that would hold us back if w let it," he said when he'd finished. "The key is to deal with it, then find a way around it.

It's easy to be in love when life is smooth sailing. What deepens it though is riding out the rough waves and finding your way back to what brought you together in the first place.

And what if this place I'm running to has become every bit as random and merciless as the city I just left? The place where I've spent the past twenty years of my life working toward something I truly thought I would eventually reach, only to realize I had been there all along. And never recognized it. Never valued it.

It is difficult to obtain the friendship of a cat. It is a philosophical animal… one that does not place its affections thoughtlessly. ~ Theophile Gautier

I've heard it said that we are the sum total of every choice we've ever made. I don't think anyone could be a better example of that than I am.

He should have been nothing but exhilarated. Somehow, he merely felt tired. Bone weary with the routine of his life, the predictability of it.

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye." ? Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts. Perhaps the fear of a loss of power." —John Steinbeck

Children are great imitators. So give them something great to imitate. – Anonymous

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it. – Henry David Thoreau

Life is precious, love is a gift. The sun might not always shine on us. But those will be the days that we take pleasure in the rain.

Four things come not back: The spoken word, The sped arrow, The past life, The neglected opportunity.