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61 " Here and now she cannot exist without me. "
― Nicholas Sparks , The Longest Ride
62 " Love requires sacrifice, but it's worth it "
63 " I love you, Sophia. "
64 " The ups and downs, the dreams and struggles, had all been part of the journey, she realized—a journey that led to a cattle ranch near a town called King, where she had fallen in love with a cowboy named Luke. "
65 " Hell, if they wanted to act like idiots, why try to stop them? "
66 " It wasn’t a question of if a bull rider got injured, but rather when and how badly. "
67 " more time she’d spent with him, the more convinced she became that he was by far the sexiest guy she’d ever met. Who else did she know who could work with his hands the way he did? Who could make her laugh? Who was smart and charming, self-reliant and tender? "
68 " In college, there aren't many guys like that, and why would there be? When girls just give it away for nothing? I mean, I can understand why you'd sleep with someone if you love them, but if you barely know them? What's the point? It just cheapens it. "
69 " if he hadn’t been following her, she doubted she’d be thinking about him at all. Yet he was still able to ruin her night, and that bothered her. Because she was allowing it to happen. Because she was giving him that power over her. "
70 " Ruth Levinson Third grade teacher. She believes in me and I can be anything I want when I grow up. I can even change the world. "
71 " Trust people,” he would tell me, “until they give you a reason not to. And then never turn your back. "
72 " People plan, God laughs, or something like that. "
73 " One of my father's Rules for Life was to marry a woman who was smarter than you. "
74 " And I'd be struck a new by the finality of Ruth's absence. "
75 " I spent much of that year trying to imagine a future distorted by war. "
76 " Yes, I would become upset when you forgot to take out the garbage, but that is not a real argument. That is nothing. It passes like a leaf blown by the window. It is over and done and it is forgotten quickly. "
77 " I am always with you, Ira. "
78 " Ik begrijp dat liefde en verdriet hand in hand gaan, want de een kan niet bestaan zonder de ander, maar toch vraag ik mij wel eens af of het allemaal wel eerlijk is. Een man zou moeten sterven zoals hij heeft geleefd, vind ik. In zijn laatste ogenblikken moet hij omgeven en getroost worden door diegenen van wie hij altijd heeft gehouden. "
79 " He still didn't think I was good enough for you." "No father thinks any man is good enough for his daughter. "
80 " No," I mumble. I try to shake my head but can't, the agony making it impossible. "I want to stay awake. I want to be with you.""Do not worry. I will be here when you wake." "But you were gone before." "I was not gone. I was here and I will always be here." "How can you be so sure?"She kissed me again before answering. "Because," she says, her voice tender, "I am always with you, Ira. "