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81 " Avoidance sounds like such a harmless word, but that one word can cause some severe damage to a relationship. "
― Colleen Hoover , All Your Perfects
82 " I'm sorry for what I did to you in your nightmare. Please forgive me tonight when you dream." I still have the card. I smile every time I think about it. Some men can't even apologize for the mistakes they make in reality. But my husband apologizes for the mistakes he makes in my dreams. "
83 " I used to believe if you loved someone enough, that love could withstand anything. As long as two people remained in love, then nothing could tear them apart. Not even tragedy. But now I realize that tragedy can tear down even the strongest of things. "
84 " No matter what life throws at us, we're going to make great memories together, Quinn. That's a given. But there's also going to be bad days and sad days and days that test our resolve. Those are the days I want you to feel the absolute weight of my love for you. I promise I will love you more during the storms than I will love you during the perfect days. I promise to love you more when you're hurting then when you're happy. I promise to love you more when we're poor than when we're swimming in riches. I promise to love you more when you're crying than when you're laughing. I promise to love you more when you're sick than when you're healthy. I promise to love you more when you hate me than when you love me. "
85 " It’s the first time I don’t look at him and feel guilty for everything I can’t give him because I know how grateful he is for everything I can give him. "
86 " I can spend my time focusing on the perfect version of the life I’ll never have or I can spend my time enjoying the life I do have. And the life I have would provide me with so much opportunity if I would get out of my own head long enough to chase those opportunities. "
87 " We’re on a busy sidewalk, so two people stop to ask if they can help, because they don’t realize Graham is with me. Both times, Graham says, “Thank you, but my wife has got this.” I laugh when I realize what he’s doing. The entire time I’m changing the tire, Graham brags about it to everyone who walks by. “Look! My wife knows how to change a tire. "
88 " It’s weird, having thoughts of divorcing someone I’m in love with. "
89 " You’ll cry tonight. In bed. That’s when it’ll hurt the most. When you’re alone. "
90 " Genuine. If I had to describe him in one word, that would be it. "
91 " It's funny how you can be so happy with someone and love them so much, it creates an underlying sense of fear in you that you never knew before them. The fear of losing them. The fear of them getting hurt. "
92 " Gratitude is born in the struggle. "
93 " No matter how much you love someone – the capacity of that love is meaningless if it outweighs your capacity to forgive. "
94 " I realized I felt better about myself without him than I did with him. "
95 " If this is what our marriage is . . . if this is all it will ever be . . . just me and you . . . will that be enough? Am I enough for you, Quinn? "
96 " He looks at me, completely defeated. 'I love you', he says quietly, shaking his head. 'I always have. No matter how much you wish I didn’t'. "
97 " We haven’t lost yet, Quinn. "
98 " I thought you were the one that got away." I smile. "I still could be." "Don't be. "
99 " I promise to be your pillar of strength for as long as you need one, I’m sure I will sometimes fail you. My whole purpose in life is to make you happy, and sometimes I feel like I’m unable to do that anymore. Sometimes I give up on myself. "
100 " He is enough for me. The problem is… he could be so much more without me. "