Love is like the wind, you can’t see it but you can feel it.
So it’s not gonna be easy. It’s going to be really hard; we’re gonna have to work at this everyday, but I want to do that because I want you. I want all of you, forever, everyday. You and me… everyday.
Just when you think it can’t get any worse, it can. And just when you think it can’t get any better, it can.
You are my best friend as well as my lover, and I do not know which side of you I enjoy the most. I treasure each side, just as I have treasured our life together.
The best love is the kind that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more, that plants a fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds. And that’s what you’ve given me. That’s what I’d hoped to give you forever
They didn’t agree on much. In fact, they didn’t agree on anything. They fought all the time and challenged each other ever day. But despite their differences, they had one important thing in common. They were crazy about each other.
My daddy said, that the first time you fall in love, it changes you forever and no matter how hard you try, that feeling just never goes away.
You are the answer to every prayer I’ve offered. You are a song, a dream, a whisper, and I don’t know how I could have lived without you for as long as I have.
If you like her, if she makes you happy, and if you feel like you know her—then don’t let her go.
I love you more than there are stars in the sky and fish in the sea.
True love is rare, and it’s the only thing that gives life real meaning.
The greater the love, the greater the tragedy when it’s over.
Life, he realize, was much like a song. In the beginning there is mystery, in the end there is confirmation, but it’s in the middle where all the emotion resides to make the whole thing worthwhile.
The saddest people I’ve ever met in life are the ones who don’t care deeply about anything at all. Passion and satisfaction go hand in hand, and without them, any happiness is only temporary, because there’s nothing to make it last.
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.
I fell in love with her when we were together, then fell deeper in love with her in the years we were apart.
The emotion that can break your heart is sometimes the very one that heals it…
Without you in my arms, I feel an emptiness in my soul. I find myself searching the crowds for your face – I know it’s an impossibility, but I cannot help myself.
When I look in the mirror, I know I’m looking at someone who isn’t sure she deserves to be loved at all.
Spending time with you showed me what I’ve been missing in my life.
I’d learned that some things are best kept secret.
love, I’ve come to understand is more than three words mumbled before bedtime.
She was my dream. She made me who I am, and holding her in my arms was more natural to me than my own heartbeat. I think about her all the time. Even now, when I’m sitting here, I think about her. There could never have been another.
Romance is thinking about your significant other, when you are supposed to be thinking about something else.
Someday you’ll find someone special again. People who’ve been in love once usually do. It’s in their nature.
She wanted something else, something different, something more. Passion and romance, perhaps, or maybe quiet conversations in candlelit rooms, or perhaps something as simple as not being second.
He stared at her, knowing with certainty that he was falling in love. He pulled her close and kissed her beneath a blanket of stars, wondering how on earth he’d been lucky enough to find her.
The scariest thing about distance is that you don’t know whether they’ll miss you or forget you.
You really love her don’t you,” she said.With all my heart.”She looked as sad as I’d ever seen her.What’s your heart telling you to do?”I don’t know.”Maybe”, she said gently,”You’re trying to hard to hear it.
How far should a person go in the name of true love?
Loving someone and having them love you back is the most precious thing in the world.
She wasnt exactly sure when it happened. Or even when it started. All she knew for sure was that right here and now, she was falling hard and she could only pray that he was feeling the same way.
How far would you go to keep the hope of love alive?
We’d met at a carefree time, a moment full of promise, in its place now were the harsh lessons of the real world.
I guess what I’m trying to say is that you are there, in everything I am, in everything I’ve ever done, and looking back, I know that I should have told you know much you’ve always meant to me.
You’re a hero and a gentleman, you’re kind and honest, but more than that, you’re the first man I ever truly loved. And no matter what the future brings, you always will be, and I know that my life is better for it.
Love doesn’t mean anything if you’re not willing to make a commitment, and you have to think not only about what you want, but about what he wants. Not just now, but in the future.
It is the possibility that keeps me going, and though you may call me a dreamer or a fool or any other thing, I believe that anything is possible.
All of sudden, this shooting star went by, and all I could think was that they were listening to us somehow.
No matter where it is in the sky… No matter where you are in the world… the moon is never bigger than your thumb. -John
Being in love, I find myself smiling for no reason at all…
But love, I’ve come to understand, is more than three words mumbled before bedtime. Love is sustained by action, a pattern of devotion in the things we do for each other every day.
Deep in her heart, she wasn’t sure she deserved to be happy, nor did she believe that she was worthy of someone who seemed…normal.
Their fingers seemed to fit together in just the right way- effortlessly clasped,like perfect complements.
What’s your heart telling you to do?I don’t know.’Maybe, you’re trying too hard to hear it.
I might kiss you.I might be bad at it.That’s not possible.
I am lost without you. I am soulless, a drifter without a home, a solitary bird in a flight to nowhere. I am all these things, and I am nothing at all. This, my darling, is my life without you. I long for you to show me how to live again.
and all I could think was that I would like to spend every morning for the rest of my life waking up beside her
Love is Love no matter old you are, and I knew if I gave you enough time, you’d come back to me.
I love you now for what we’ve already shared, and I love you now in anticipation of all that’s to come.
You’re still alive. And that means you’ll love and be loved…and in the end, nothing else really matters.
She had been proud of his decision to serve his country, her heart bursting with love and admiration the first time she saw him outfitted in his dress blues.
It was their secret, a secret meant for just the two of them, and she’d never been able to imagine how it would sound coming from someone else. But, somehow, Logan made it sound just right.
Never forget that anticipation is an important part of life. Work’s important, family’s important, but without excitement, you have nothing. You’re cheating yourself if you refuse to enjoy what’s coming.
Jamie: You know what I figured out today?Landon: What?Jamie: Maybe God has a bigger plan for me than I had for myself. Like this journey never ends. Like you were sent to me because I’m sick. To help me through all this. You’re my angel.
Youth offers the promise of happiness, but life offers the realities of grief.
I’m sure you think that I don’t understand what you’re going through, but I do. It’s just that sometimes, our future is dictated by what we are, opposed to what we want.
Too many people seem to believe that silence was a void that needed to be filled, even if nothing important was said.
That’s the thing about life. A lot of the time, it isn’t easy at all. We just have to try to make the best of it.
It is life, I think, to watch the water. A man can learn so many things.
I’ve come to believe that in everyone’s life, there’s one undeniable moment of change, a set of circumstances that suddenly alters everything.
Our lives can’t be measured by our final years, of this I am sure.
Strange, what being forced to slow down could do to a person.
I suppose [my life] has most resembled a blue chip stock: fairly stable, more ups than downs, and gradually trending upward over time. A good buy, a lucky buy, and I’ve learned that not everyone can say that about his life.
You can’t live your life for other people. You’ve got to do what’s right for you, even if it hurts some people you love.
In the end you should always do the right thing even if it’s hard.
When you chase a dream, you learn about yourself. You learn your capabilities and limitations, and the value of hard work and persistence.
Maybe we’ve lived a thousand lives before this one and in each of them we’ve found each other… I know I’ve spent each life before this one searching for you. Not someone like you but you, for your soul and mine must always come together.
Mom says it’s because she has PMS.Do you even know what that means?”I’m not a little kid anymore. It means pissed-at- men syndrome
If you’re going to sit on someone’s tombstone, you might as well know something about them, right?
Never forget that God is your friend. And like all friends, He longs to hear what’s been happening in your life. Good or bad, whether it’s been full of sorrow or anger, or even when you’re questioning why terrible things have to happen.
I have always been a firm believer in God and the power of prayer, though to be honest, my faith has made for alist of questions I definitely want answered after I’m gone.
…nothing wonderful lasted forever. Joy was as fleeting as a shooting star that crossed the evening sky, ready to blink out at any moment.
He was a wonderful man. And when a man is that special, you know it sooner than you think possible. You recognize it instinctively, and you’re certain that no matter what happens, there will never be another one like him.
I’ve never been afraid of them. Not once. Because I had you.
Frugality, I’ve learned, has its own cost, one that sometimes lasts forever.
In our time together, you claimed a special place in my heart, one I’ll carry with me forever and that no one can ever replace.
Believe me, I’m no romantic, and while I’ve heard all about love at first sight, I’ve never believed in it, and I still don’t. But even so, there was something there, something recognizably real, and I couldn’t look away.
As a girl, she had come to believe in the ideal man — the prince or knight of her childhood stories. In the real world, however, men like that simply didn’t exist.
I been watchin’ you, workin day and night, slavin so hard you barely have time to catch your breath. People do that for three reasons. Either they crazy, or stupid, or tryin’ to forget.
It all comes down to who is by your side and who is willing to stand up for love even when it seems impossible.
She leaned into me, and when I closed my eyes, I knew I wanted nothing more than to hold her this way forever.
You might not understand, but I gave you the best of me, and after you left, nothing was ever the same.
I love you too, Will Blakelee,” she whispered, leaning in to kiss him again.
EVERYONE MAKES MISTAKES, EVEN THE PERSONS WE LOVE.
As the warm air blew in the car, simple snapshots of the life they’d lived together surfaced in his mind; but as always, those images led inexorably to their final day together.
It’s the possibility that keeps me going, not the guarantee.
I came to the conclusion that unrealized hopes, even small ones, were always wrenching.
Love is always patient and kind. It is never jealous. Love is never boastful or conceited. It is never rude or selfish. It does not take offense and is not resentful.
Poetry, she thought, wasn’t written to be analyzed; it was meant to inspire without reason, to touch without understanding.
I dont think that we’re meant to understand it all the time. I think that sometimes we just have to have faith.
Does trust have to be earned. Or is it simply a matter of faith?
Science only goes so far, then comes God.- Noah Calhoun-
Halfway down the aisle, Jamie suddenly seemed to tire, and they stopped while she caught her breath…It was, I remembered thinking, the most difficult walk anyone ever had to make. In every way, a walk to remember.
I don’t pray because it doesn’t work. Prayer doesn’t fix anything. Bad things happen anyway.
I mean, if the relationship can’t survive the long term, why on earth would it be worth my time and energy for the short term?
Every couple needs to argue now and then. Just to prove that the relationship is strong enough to survive. Long-term relationships, the ones that matter, are all about weathering the peaks and the valleys.
Every couple has ups and downs, every couple argues, and that’s the thing—you’re a couple, and couples can’t function without trust.
Theresa, I know there’s a part of you that believes you can change someone, but the reality is that you can’t. You can change yourself, and Garrett can change himself, but you can’t do it for him.
He thought of her often, and he missed the companionship they’d once shared and the friendship that had been the bedrock of their marriage at its best.
There are moments when I wish I could roll back the clock and take all the sadness away, but I have the feeling that if I did, the joy would be gone as well.
It was a lesson that I would learn in time though it wasn’t Hegbert who taught me.
It hadn’t been so long ago, yet sometimes she felt that she’d been an altogether different person back then.
People didn’t change. they liked what they liked even if they didn’t understand why.
Always stick to the story. It was when you started backtracking that people got in trouble. Interrogation 101.
What are we after all our dreams, after all our memories?
There’s always a ‘but’ when it comes to jobs. Like, I love my job but my colleagues are first-rate, but…a couple of them like to dress like superheroes on the weekend and I can’t help but wonder if they’re nuts.” – Logan
I’ll be with my sister. And believe it or not, she has a phone and everything. She stopped using smoke signals last year.” – Nana
Daddy loved his son. Daddy believed his son walked on water. Daddy, Mike had long ago decided, was an idiot.
A living poem” had always been the words that came to mind when he tried to describe her to others.
Things changed, people changed, and the world went rolling along right outside the window.
Change not only was inevitable, but usually brought its own rewards.
We’re not the same people we were then. We’ve changed, we’ve grown.
Yet I have come to believe that while the past is unchangeable, our perceptions of is are malleable…
That speaking the words, even if true, had little power to change the inevitable or even make him feel much better.
The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected.
You gotta know when to be lazy. Done correctly, it’s an art form that benefits everyone.
Marriage is about compromise; it’s about doing something for the other person, even when you don’t want to.
Each recognized the fact that real commitment could be proven only through the passage of time.
A good marriage, like any partnership, meant subordinating one’s own needs to that of the other’s, in the expectation that the other will do the same.
Life…was much like a song. In the beginning there is mystery, in the end there is confirmation, but it’s in the middle where all the emotion resides to make the whole thing worthwhile.
There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but I’ve loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me, this has always been enough.
I never stopped loving you, Ronnie. And I never stopped thinking about you. Even if summers do come to an end.
There were moments when it honestly seemed as if the world were conspiring against her.
That’s what courage is. If she weren’t scared, she wouldn’t need courage in the first place.” -Jo
…but unlike me, she has a hard time saying such things. She loved me with a passion, but I felt it in her expressions, in her touch, in the tender brush of her lips. And, when I needed it most, she loved me with the written word as well.
That’s the thing about being the product of happily marries parents, You grow up thinking the fairy tale is real, and more than that, you think you’re entitled to live it. So far, though, it wasn’t working out as planned.
He was a solitary figure in a vast landscape while she was a face in a nameless crowd.
My daddy saidthat the first time you fall in love, it changes you forever and no matter how hard you try, the feeling just never goes away.
A person with autism lives in his own world, while a person with Asperger’s lives in our world, in a way of his own choosing
If you discovered something that made you tighten inside, you had better try to learn more about it.
Do you ever wonder why things have to turn out the way they do?
It’s possible to go on, no matter how impossible it seems.
The past was gone and the future had yet to unfold, and he knew he should focus his life on the present…yet his day-to-day existence suddenly struck him as endless and unbearable.
And though she didn’t know it then, whenever her thoughts drifted back toward the past, she would always remember that this was how it all began.
They inspire you, they entertain you, and you end up learning a ton even when you don’t know it
Relationship is about forgiveness and compromise. It is about balance where one person complements each other.
Even the most ordinary things can be made extraordinary simply by doing it with the right people.
It was inevitable, of course, but somehow it didn’t seem right to Alex that they would never remember the sound of Carly’s laughter, or know how deeply she’d once loved them.
He’d lived long enough to know that everyone handled grief in different ways, and little by little, they all seemed to accept their new lives.
What can you do when you’re condemned to a place where every choice seems wrong – even the one you promised your lover you’d make?
Part of me aches at the thought of her being so close yet so untouchable.
You’re going to come across people in your life who will say all the right words at all the right times. But in the end, it’s always their actions you should judge them by. It’s actions, not words, that matter.
You can’t live your life for other people. You’ve got to do what’s right for you, even if it hurts some people you love.
There’s a lot of magic between you too, ain’t no denying that. And magic makes forgettin’ hard.
And when I came in with tears in my eyes, you always knew whether I needed you to hold me or just let me be. I don’t know how you knew, but you did, and you made it easier for me.
At times, it almost felt like I was destined to take the trip, like all the people I met had somehow been waiting for me
Outside the hospital, I squinted in the harsh morning sunlight. I could hear birds chirping in the tree, but even though I searched for them, they remained hidden from me.
because the past was always around her and might return at any time. It prowled the world searching for her, and she knew it was growing angrier at every passing day.
If it’s over, then don’t let the past screw up the rest of your life.
I realize that I don’t know where to start. Not because I’m unsure of my story, but because I’m not sure why I feel compelled to tell it in the first place. What can be achieved by unearthing the past?
Everyone has a past, but that’s just it–it’s in the past. You can learn from it, but you can’t change it.
And suddenly she knew exactly why Catherine had fallen in love with him. It wasn’t that he was unusually attractive, or ambitious, or even charming. He was partly those things, but more important, he seemed to live life on his own terms.
Dean: If there is a greater power, why is it he can’t get you a new sweater?Jamie: Because, he’s too busy looking for your brain.
In the end, people should be judged by their actions, since in the end, it was actions that defined everyone.
Experience had taught me that even the most precious memories fade with the passage of time.
It doesn’t sound so far-fetched, right? When two people love each other? While a part of me still wants to believe it’s possible, I know it’s not going to happen
Emotions come and go and can’t be controlled so there’s no reason to worry about them. That in the end, people should be judged by their actions since in the end it was actions that defined everyone.
The pieces all fit together. Yet everything was falling apart.
And I’d be willing to bet that you were great at it, if only because you have to love something before you can hate it.
What it’s like to be a parent: It’s one of the hardest things you’ll ever do but in exchange it teaches you the meaning of unconditional love.
It’s impossible to protect your kids against disappointment in life.
Having kids means taking care of them, raising them, loving and supporting them, and none of those things have anything to do with who makes them one night in the bedroom or the experience of being pregnant
For desert, maybe we can split a couple of crumbs.
Silence is pure and holy. It draws people together because only those who are comfortable with each other can sit without speaking.
She’d either be a heartless mother and wife or a spineless enabler, when all she really wanted was the man she’d once believed him to be.
The emotions attached to them were like sand castles in the tide, slowly washing out to sea.
But I was also told to hold doors for women and children, to shake hands with a firm grip, to remember people’s names, and to always give the customer a little more than expected.
God, with a wisdom I can’t claim to understand, called you home a long time ago, and the tears I shed that night have never seemed to dry.
Jill had three basic statements about life,1. It is your life, usually with some added social commentary.2. What you want and what you get are usually two entirely different things.3. No one ever said that life was fair.
She had known the kind of love that was worth risking everything for, the kind of love that was as rare as a glimpse of heaven.
If there is a heaven we will find each other again, for there is no heaven without you.
He often felt that too many people lived their lives acting and pretending,wearing masks and losing themselves in the process.
For it is one thing to declare one’s love for someone and quite another to accept that loving that person requires sacrificing one’s dreams.
God, he suddenly understood, was love in its purest form, and in these last months with his children, he had felt His touch as surely as he had heard the music spilling from Ronnie’s hands.
in all the years we spend together, I never once regretted the fact that I had chosen her and that she had chosen me as well.
That’s good. And speaking of spelling, tell me — do you wrap your head in a towel after you shower?
A moment later, he plopped down on the sand beside her, and when they accidentally touched, Gabby had the briefest flash of them sitting together just like this on a hundred different weekends in the future.
Gifts of the heart can’t be claimed by anyone except the giver.
Silence is pure. Silence is holy. It draws people together because only those who are comfortable with each other can sit without speaking. This is the great paradox.
God’s voice is usually nothing more than a whisper, and you have to listen very carefully to hear it. But other times, in those rarest of moments, the answer is obvious and rings as loud as a church bell.
You kissed me yes, But it was not just goodnight even then I could feel the promise in it. The promise that you could kiss me like that forever.
So tel me, Mr. Science Journalist, do you still doubt the existence of miracles?””I just told you. You’re my miracle.
Even when we were standing in the church and I was getting ready to take my vows, I can remember wishing that you were standing there, instead of him. Because I not only still loved you, but loved you beyond measure.
We are not perfect. We make mistakes. We screw up but then we forgive and move forward.
You have no idea how much the last few days have meant to me,” I began. “Meeting you has been the best thing that’s ever happened to me.
…when a wife wouldn’t testify, little punishment was meted out. Alex came to understand that only those who pressed charges ever became truly free, because the life they were leading was a prison, even if most of them wouldn’t admit it.
Wandering and confused, lost to myself, ill-assorted, contradictory, Pausing, gazing, bending, and stopping
You think you know me, but I’m not sure that even I know who I am anymore.
I’ve learned that we’re all entitled to have our secrets.
The problem isn’t finding out where you are gonna go-its figuring out what you are gonna do once you get there that is! (Jamie Sullivan)
The next time you’re mad at me, talk to me,’ he said. ‘Don’t shut me out. I don’t like playing games. And by the way, I had a great time, too.
They were inlove, but they hadn’t been lovers; they were friends and yet also strangers for so many years
Allie noticed it all, every sound, every thought. Her senses had come alive, invigorating her, and she felt her mind drifting through the last few weeks.
The day my life changed forever…The day I first saw you.
It was… the most difficult walk anyone ever had to make. In every way, a walk to remember.
As they spoke, the only thing I could think about was that scene from Julius Caesar where Brutus stabs him in the back. Et tu, Eric?
Because being comfortable meant she might lower her guard, and she could not let that happen.
That was the kind of life she’d had as a child, and it was the kind she wanted as an adult. But it hadn’t worked out that way. Things in life seldomdid, she’d come to understand
On and on they went these nevers, but despite their random natures I found myself following almost every one. Perhaps because I never wanted to disappoint my father.
Knowing there’s one thing I still haven’t told you: I now believe, by the way, that miracles can happen.
It happens to everyone as they grow up. You find out who you are and what you want, and then you realize that people you’ve known forever don’t see things the way you do. So you keep the wonderful memories, but find yourself moving on.
I want all of you, forever everyday. You and me everyday.
Or maybe watching you enjoy a carefree summer while you fell in love was what kept me out of the hospital in the first place.
That a day spent with dreaming and sunsets and refreshing breezes cannot be bettered.
It wasn’t that long, and it certainly wasn’t the kind of kiss you see in movies these days, but it was wonderful in its own way, and all I can remember about the moment is that when our lips touched, I knew the memory would last forever.
One of my father’s RULES FOR LIFE was to marry a woman who was smarter than you. “I did this,” he would say to me, “and you should do it, too. I say, why do all the thinking?
Love hurts. There is nothing as painful as heartbreak. But in order to learn to love again, you must learn to trust again.
The secret is to know how to lie” he used to say, ” and to know when someone’s lying to you”. His father, Steve eventually decided, must have known how to lie.
If we’d never met, I think I would have known my life wasn’t complete. And I would have wandered the world in search of you, even if I didn’t know who I was looking for
I love autumn”, Emily said to me. “It wins you over with its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay.
Its easy to fall for someone that will find humor in every situation.
I know the Lord has a plan for us all, but sometimes, I just don’t understand what the message can be.
I don’t know that love changes. People change. Circumstances change.
My wife, my family, my friends – they’ve all taught me things about love and what that emotion really means. In a nutshell, loving someone is about giving, not receiving.
None of my characters are rich or famous, and the situations they find themselves in could happen to anyone.
I have a great wife and it’s very easy to be romantic because it makes her happy and then my life is so much better when she’s happy.
The first thing I did when I sold my book was buy a new wedding ring for my wife and asked her to marry me all over again.