You can stay for a life that feels safe.
Or you can leave for one that feels real.

Love is the one gamble where not playing guarantees you lose.

Their relationship was like an Argentine tango—that rhythm of desire and doubt where one person moves forward, and the other pulls back, but always in each other’s arms.

He didn’t believe in love. She believed it didn’t last. They met in Munich in 1986 and agreed: careers first, no commitment.

Then they set off across Africa on twenty dollars a day.

Between Cairo and Cape Town, one of them changed their mind.

Some agreements weren’t meant to survive Africa.