Second Chance

I was browsing my info section on my facebook because I was bored. These are the quotes that I have on there. I feel like I've never read more powerful words in my life. They all have a deep meaning to me and I wanted to share them with you guys. A birthday post is to come later on :)

"Sometimes goodbye is a second chance."

"I have given you my heart. But how can I live without the very motor of life? I do not ask you to give it back to me; for only in your prison does it enjoy the most sublime of freedoms, but I beg you to send me, in exchange, your own, that could find no tabernacle more prepared to welcome it. To live you have no need of two hearts, and mine beats so hard for you that it can assure you of the most eternal of fervors." -Umberto Echo


I wish I had said...
Your beauty is like a light,
And I am drawn to it,
Fluttering by its flame.
I wish I had said...
Your body is to die for,
And I long to be martyred.
Yes, I wish I had said...
Your smile melts through
My heart, leaving only
Your warmth. Oh how
I wish I had said...
Your translucent eyes
Send your soul to my heart,
Forcing it to beat again.
Yes, that is what I wish
I had said but,
With confounded cowardice,
All I said was...
Hello, with a smile,
And passed you by.
- Christian O'Connor



"I have a tendency not only to see the best in everyone, but to assume that everyone is emotionally capable of reaching his highest potential. I have fallen in love more times than I care to count with the highest potential of a man, rather than with the man himself, and I have hung on to the relationship for a long time (sometimes far too long) waiting for the man to ascend to his own greatness. Many times in romance I have been a victim of my own optimism."
-Elizabeth Gilbert