Then suddenly he reached out and took her hand. "Why did you do that?" she asked softly. He looked up at the snowflakes, let them fall, melt on his face, turning it shiny. "Because when it's slippery out, sometimes we just need someone to hang on to until we find our footing.

I'm safe, even if I'm a jerk." "I have friends who will hunt you down and kill you if I go missing.

They want you to know they care. They heard about Kasha. Besides, this is the Minnesota way. We demonstrate affection through hot dish.

For a second she saw the brother she'd known better than herself. Proud, strong, faithful, determined, and yes, just reckless enough to save them all.

I will always come for you. No matter what. I. Choose. You.

I don't even know what intimacy is, Pastor." "It's belonging and believing and being loving to each other. It's vulnerability to the one person you trust most. It's saying, 'Here's my ugly, battered, wounded heart. I'm going to let you see it and trust you with it.' Did you ever let her see your grief?

The Ones who love you always come back

That's what love does right? Shows up and sticks around, even for the hard stuff. Keeps its promises~ Sam to Pete (pg 322)

When the death of the man who taught them how to jump, along with a raging wildfire in the mountains of Montana, brings them together to train up a new team of jumpers, Kate and Jed have no idea the love they've been running from is about to ignite.

My daddy has a chain five miles long, on each link a heart for a lover he has lost.

He's exasperated. "I'm saying I'm in love with you! I've been in love with you this whole bleeding year!

To love a person is to learn the song that is in their heart, and to sing it to them when they have forgotten- the secrets of married women by Carol Mason