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81 " I knew my father had done the best he could, and I had no regrets about the way I'd turned out. Regrets about journey, maybe, but not the destination. "
― Nicholas Sparks , The Notebook (The Notebook, #1)
82 " And if, in some distant place in the future, we see each other in our new lives, I will smile at you with joy, and remember how we spent a summer beneath the trees, learning from each other and growing in love. "
83 " Poets often describe love as an emotion that we can't control, one that overwhelms logic and common sense. Thats what it's like for me. I didn't plan on falling in love with you, and I doubt that you planned on falling in love with me. But once we met, it was clear that neither of us could control what was happening to us. We fell in love, despite our differences, and once we did, something rare and beautiful was created. For me love like that has happened only once, and thats why every minute we spent together has been seared in my memory. I'll never forget a single moment of it. "
84 " Nothing is ever lost nor can be lost; the body aged, sluggish,cold.... the embers left from earlier fires shall dully flame again "
85 " Say I'm a bird "
86 " The romantics would call this a love story, the cynics would call it a tragedy. "
87 " Perfect love did that to a person, and this had been perfect. "
88 " A woman shaking in fear from demons in her mind, and the old man who loves her more deeply than life itself, crying softly in the corner, his face in his hands. "
89 " So that's the ghost you been running from. "
90 " I'm not saying it because I'm sweet. I'm saying it because I love you now and I always have. More than you can imagine. "
91 " I know what it's like to be day and night now; always together, forever apart. "
92 " But she also sensed it wasn't enough. She wanted something else, something different, something more. Passion and romance, perhaps, or maybe quiet conversation in candlelit rooms, or perhaps something as simple as not being second. "
93 " I am a common man with common thoughts, and I've led a common life. 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. "
94 " And maybe, just maybe, it will. "
95 " Like her father, he wasn't comfortable sharing his thoughts and feelings. She tried to explain that she needed to be closer to him, but it had never seemed to make a difference. "
96 " I know it can't be the same between us, but that doesn't change the way I felt about you then. "
97 " write what readers want to read, which isn’t necessarily what you want to write. "
98 " Early on, he'd learned to enjoy simple things, things that couldn't be bought, and he had a hard time understanding people who felt otherwise. "
99 " He was thirty-one now, not too old, but old enough to be lonely. He hadn't dated since he'd been back here, hadn't met anyone who remotely interested him. It was his own fault, he knew. There was something that kept a distance between him and any woman who started to get close, something he wasn't sure he could change even if he tried. And sometimes in the moments right before sleep came, he wondered if he was destined to be alone forever. "
100 " I don't want to live the rest of my life thinking about you and dreaming of what might have been. Stay with me, Allie. "