The One

It’s that feeling you don’t get when you’re around anyone else, like nobody in the world matters when you’re in their company. Like you and them are this one, solitary … thing … And no matter what crap the world throws at you, you can get through it because you have them on your side.

‘To love or have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further. There is no other pearl to be found in the dark folds of life.’ Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

She dreamed of having someone she had helped to create and mould, someone who depended on her, who needed her, who would always seek her out for guidance and who, until her dying day, would call her ‘Mum’.

She dreamed of having someone

Then we’ll be mindful that maybe we’ll need to put more effort into our relationship. Like John Lennon said, “All You Need Is Love”.’

‘Yes, but he also said, “I Am The Walrus”, so let’s not hold too much credence to his pearls of wisdom.’

If you’ve got the opportunity to love someone as much as they love you, then grab it with both hands and hold on to it for dear life.’

How willing we are to give up everything and anyone we hold dear on the suggestion there might be something better around the corner.

that life should be lived, not viewed from afar.

. Anything could happen to them if their details fell into the wrong hands

You’re in love with the idea of being in love