A friend is one to whom one may pour out the contents of one’s heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that gentle hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.
― Dinah Maria Craik

 

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If conversation was the lyrics, laughter was the music, making time spent together a melody that could be replayed over and over without getting stale.
― Nicholas Sparks

 

 Below is the original photo used to create this image. Caught these shrouded trees on misty morning as I was heading out to work. No special lighting or retouching, just a snap from my smart phone.

I like to see people reunited, I like to see people run to each other, I like the kissing and the crying, I like the impatience, the stories that the mouth can’t tell fast enough, the ears that aren’t big enough, the eyes that can’t take in all of the change, I like the hugging, the bringing together, the end of missing someone.
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 

 

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We fell in love, despite our differences, and once we did, something rare and beautiful was created. For me, love like that has only happened once, and that’s why every minute we spent together has been seared in my memory. I’ll never forget a single moment of it.
― Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook 

 

 

Below is the original photo used to create this image. These lovely lavender blooms were discovered on a lunchtime walk around the capital grounds in Richmond, VA. No special lighting or retouching, just a snap from my smart phone.

  

 

True friends are always together in spirit.
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

 

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She wasn’t doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together.
― J.D. Salinger

 

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Maybe the truth is, there’s a little bit of loser in all of us. Being happy isn’t having everything in your life be perfect. Maybe it’s about stringing together all the little things.
― Ann Brashares, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants

 

 

 

Below is the original photo used to create this image. Caught these shrouded trees on misty morning as I was heading out to work. No special lighting or retouching, just a snap from my smart phone.

If there ever comes a day when we can’t be together, keep me in your heart. I’ll stay there forever.
― A.A. Milne

 

 

Below is the original photo used to create this image. These lovely lavender blooms were discovered on a lunchtime walk around the capital grounds in Richmond, VA. No special lighting or retouching, just a snap from my smart phone.

  

 

Together in our house, in the firelight, we are the world made small.
― Jennifer Donnelly, Revolution

 

Below is the original photo used to create this image. This dramatic sky and view of downtown Richmond, VA near 3rd and East Main Street was captured on my way home from work. No special lighting or retouching, just a snap from my smart phone.

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.
― Helen Keller

 

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