It´s natural to want someone you love to do what you want, or what you think would be good for them, but you have to let everything happen to them. You can't interfere with people you love any more than you're supposed to interfere with people you don't even know. And that's hard, ..., because you often feel like interfering -you want to be the one who makes the plans.

…there was no more safety to be found in love than there was to be found in a virus.

If you are careful,' Garp wrote, 'if you use good ingredients, and you don't take any shortcuts, then you can usually cook something very good. Sometimes it is the only worthwhile product you can salvage from a day; what you make to eat. With writing, I find, you can have all the right ingredients, give plenty of time and care, and still get nothing. Also true of love. Cooking, therefore, can keep a person who tries hard sane.

We invent what we love, and what we fear

If you presume to love something, you must love the process of it much more than you love the finished product.

Dear True Love, When I found myself that's when you found me. I know I'm ready for you because I know who I am now. I appreciate you. I need you. I love you.