It's a Love Story

by Annabel Monaghan

They’re quiet things, but they’re the things that move us. And people, mostly, are afraid of the quiet.”

It’s all about being brave enough to be your full broken self.

“There’s no limit to how many greens you can find in nature,” he says.

I was getting a sense of myself and wanted to keep it.”

It’s mesmerizing, the magic of a six-year-old girl.

and I think I’d like to know her long enough to give her a nonsensical nickname. Pickles, I think.

“Ready?” “Sort of,” she says. “I’m never more ready than that,” I say and she smiles.

“I don’t know what that was. But it was my favorite thing. We’ll always remember that.”

“I find you exceptionally lovable.”

being with you was the most beautiful thing that’s ever happened to me.”