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21 " The truth is, the world isn't easy for any of us. It never has been and it never will be. "
― Nicholas Sparks , The Best of Me
22 " Everyone makes mistakes, even if some are worse than others. Accidents happen. "
23 " What the younger generation didn't understand was that the grass was greenest where it's watered.. "
24 " Were all first loves like that? Somehow she doubted it; even now it struck her as being more real than anything she'd ever known. Sometimes it saddened her to think that she'd never experience that kind of feeling again, but then life had a way of stamping out that intensity of passion; she'd learned all too well that love wasn't always enough. "
25 " It takes a long time to grow an old friend. Trust is built one single moment at a time. "
26 " You'll make mistakes and struggle like everyone, but when you are with the right person, you'll almost perfect joy, like you are the luckiest person who ever lived. And that means you'll love and be loved...and in the end, nothing else really matters. "
27 " Please don't ask me to go with you, because if you do, I'll go. Please don't ask me to tell Frank about us, because i'll do that, too. Please don't ask me to give up my responsibilities or break up my family; I love you, and if you love me, too, then you just can't ask me to do these things. Because I don't trust myself enough to say no. "
28 " You have the Best Of Me.... "
29 " I knew you loved me and that you'd do anything for me. And that was one of the reasons it hurt so much when you ended it, Dawson. Because I knew even then how rare that kind of love is. Only the luckiest people get to experience it at all. "
30 " She wasn't, nor ever had been, under the illusion that marriage was a relationship characterized by endless bliss and romance. Throw any two people together, add the inevitable ups and downs, give the mixture a vigorous stir, and a few stormy arguments were inevitable, no matter how the couple loved each other. "
31 " She'd preferred the uncertainty, if only because it allowed her to remember him the way he used to be. Sometimes, though, she wondered what he felt when he thought of that year they spent together, or if he ever marveled at what they'd shared, or even whether he thought of her at all. "
32 " Even when we were standing in church and I was getting ready to take my vow I can remember wishing that you were standing there instead of him. "
33 " Now it was coming to an end, and it was like he was watching the last flicker of light wink out in the darkness of an endless tunnel. "
34 " People want to believe that every marriage is perfect balance but it isn't. One person always loves more deeply than the other "
35 " Dawson, she knew, had saved Alan's life- but in the end, he'd saved Jared's as well. And for her that meant...everything. '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 done exactly that. "
36 " memories are funny things. Sometimes they’re real, but other times they change into what we want them to be, "
37 " It's not such a bad thing. Change isn't always for the best. "
38 " It was one thing, after all, to know his feelings for Amanda hadn't changed; it was another thing entirely to face the future with the certainty that they never would. "
39 " you might not understand but i gave you the best of me... "
40 " Because I knew even then how rare that kind of love is. Only the luckiest people get to experience it at all. "