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1 " That's why I loved being with you. We could do the simplest things, like toss starfish into the ocean and share a burger and talk and even then I knew that I was fortunate. Because you were the first guy who wasn't constantly trying to impress me. You accepted who you were, but more than that, you accepted me for me. And nothing else mattered-- not my family or your family or anyone else in the world. It was just us. "
― Nicholas Sparks , The Best of Me
2 " You're still alive. And that means you'll love and be loved...and in the end, nothing else really matters. "
3 " Everyone wanted to believe that endless love was possible. She'd believed in it once too, back when she was eighteen. But she knew that love was messy, just like life. It took turns that people couldn't foresee or even understand, leaving a long trail of regret in its wake. And almost always, those regrets led to the kinds of what if questions that could never be answered. "
4 " I've never been afraid of them. Not once. Because I had you. "
5 " Marriage is a partnership, not a democracy. "
6 " You might not understand, but I gave you the best of me, and after you left, nothing was ever the same. "
7 " He was a solitary figure in a vast landscape while she was a face in a nameless crowd. "
8 " I gave you the best of me. "
9 " There's a lot of magic between you too, ain't no denying that. And magic makes forgettin' hard. "
10 " 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. "
11 " 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. "
12 " 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. "
13 " They were inlove, but they hadn't been lovers; they were friends and yet also strangers for so many years "
14 " It was a life, she eventually concluded, that had been lived in the middle ground, where contentment and love were found in the smallest details of people's lives. It was a life of dignity and honor, not without sorrows yet fulfilling in a way that few experiences ever were. "
15 " Don't take my advice. Or anyone's advice. Trust yourself. For good or for bad, happy or unhappy, it's your life, and what you do with it has always been entirely up to you. "
16 " Life was messy. Always had been and always would be and that was just the way it was, so why bother complaining? You either did something about it or you didn’t, and then you lived with the choice you made. "
17 " Because you aren't just someone I loved back then. You were my best friend, my best self, and I can't imagine giving that up again." He hesitated searching for the right words. "You might not understand, but I gave you the best of me, and after you left, nothing was ever the same. "
18 " Change isn't always for the best. "
19 " I gave you the best of me, he'd told her once, and with every beat of her son's heart, she knew he'd exactly done that. "
20 " Love, after all, always said more about those who felt it than it did about the ones they loved. "
