“He knows her like man knows earth, touching the surface but unaware of her depth.”

“No baby, you didn’t hurt me. You wrecked me. Know the difference.”

“He walked out the door and with each step my heart breaks.He’d be gone for days with long silences between each breath.I know I’m his one of many and he knows he’s my one of one. The only one who holds him down.Yet, he still leaves.He walks through the door and with each step my heart leaps.He crumbles to the ground in tears telling me he’s sorry.He says he needs me and he’s nothing without me.How can he be so attached and detached at the same time?I swear, this man loves to see me in pain.”

“He was the hunter of my soul,lying in wait – silently and motionless.Coaxing me out of hiding,Enticing me with love,Dangling hope in my face. Pulling me in, drawing me close.I gave in and walked into his trap.He did a good job too, tearing me apart and ripping my heart out. He was the hunter and I, the game.How could I forget that a hunter’s job is to kill?”

“Because this is love. This is what we’ve both been through heartbreak for.”

“My future has been completely and utterly paved by the shattered pieces of a heart that you broke.”

“Our task [as Christians] is to be faithful to the calling of the cross; to live in God’s new world as the agents of his love,and to pray that the cross we carry today will become part of the healing and reconciliation of the world. We will not understand in the present time how it is that our pain, our illness, our heartbreak, our deep frustration, is somehow taken up into the pain of God and the healing of the world; but if we offer it back to God that is precisely what will happen.”