From RAPTURE

… She had learned that when you believe everything a man tells you, y ou are lining yourself up for a direct hit of disappointment and heartbreak, so it was best not to believe certain grand pronouncements.

But she was human.

And there was still an unjaded place in her self that allowed the slight tiny possibilty that what he was saying might turn out to be real and that this might, in fact, be big.

…You never knew when the big thing might happen.
It might happen anythime.

…(That it would happen was a given. You never heard anyone say, ‘You know what? In some lives the big thing just happens. Some live simply miss it.’ No, the big thing was like death,it happened to everyone.)…

(written June 9, 2009 - from Multiply site)