Grayson's Vow

by Mia Sheridan

“Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.” —Carl Jung

“Never fret, my love, the universe always balances the scales. Her ways may be mysterious, but they are always just.” —Isabelle Dallaire,

Today may be a very bad day, but tomorrow may be the best day of your life. You just have to hang on until you get there.

Watch what people do when they think no one’s watching, love. That’s how you’ll know who they really are.

“It’s okay,” I said. “I’m here. I’ve got you.” “Said the Dragon to the witch,” she said softly, a small twinkle in her still-teary eyes. “There’s my girl,” I said.

People suffer all over the world every day. But people triumph all over the world every day too.

you can’t shut off one emotion without shutting off all your emotions. You have to feel the pain if you’re going to feel the joy.

there’s nothing on earth like the feel of someone who loves you grasping your hand in the dark when you’re lost and afraid.”

What was sexier on a man than great abs and a heart full of hidden torment?

“I’ve never experienced anything as wonderful as that. I’ve never experienced anything as wonderful as you.”

“Sometimes pain is so great, it feels as if it carves out vital parts of who you are. But love is meant to fill that empty space. If you let it, grief makes more room for love within you. And the love we carry inside makes us strong when nothing else can.

But the greater knowledge that now lived in the peaceful silence of my heart was: in love there is truth. And the truth that love had taught me was you can only be strong once you are brave enough to break, and that pain makes more room for love within. I was grateful for it all because that was the beautiful balance of life.