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1 " Spending time with you showed me what I’ve been missing in my life. "
― Nicholas Sparks , The Choice
2 " How far should a person go in the name of true love? "
3 " How far would you go to keep the hope of love alive? "
4 " The two of you, there's something uncanny about the way you two are with each other. I mean everything--the way you look at each other, the way she relaxes when you put your hand on her back, the way you both seem to know what the other is always thinking, it's always struck me as extraordinary. That's another reason I keep putting marriage off. I know I want something like what you two share, and I'm not sure I've found it yet. I'm not sure I ever will. And with love like that, they say anything's possible, right? "
5 " Three weeks ago, he’d seen hail fall from the sky, onlyto be followed minutes later by a spectacular rainbow that seemed to frame the azalea bushes. The colors, so vivid they seemed almost alive, made him think that nature sometimes sends us signs, that it’s important to remember that joy can always follow despair. But a moment later, the rainbow had vanished and the hail returned, and he realized that joy was sometimes only an illusion. "
6 " You gotta know when to be lazy. Done correctly, it's an art form that benefits everyone. "
7 " There were moments when it honestly seemed as if the world were conspiring against her. "
8 " That's the thing about being the product of happily marries parents, You grow up thinking the fairy tale is real, and more than that, you think you're entitled to live it. So far, though, it wasn't working out as planned. "
9 " The past was gone and the future had yet to unfold, and he knew he should focus his life on the present…yet his day-to-day existence suddenly struck him as endless and unbearable. "
10 " The last thing she'd wanted was anything as complicated as a relationship, for it felt as though there we're though complication in her life already. "
11 " He'd lived long enough to know that everyone handled grief in different ways, and little by little, they all seemed to accept their new lives. "
12 " What can you do when you're condemned to a place where every choice seems wrong - even the one you promised your lover you'd make? "
13 " At times, it almost felt like I was destined to take the trip, like all the people I met had somehow been waiting for me "
14 " He often felt that too many people lived their lives acting and pretending,wearing masks and losing themselves in the process. "
15 " Staring at the stars was like staring backward in time, since some stars are so far away that their light takes millions of years just to reach us. That we see stars not as they look now, but as they were when dinosaurs roamed the earth. The whole concept just struck me as…amazing somehow. "
16 " A moment later, he plopped down on the sand beside her, and when they accidentally touched, Gabby had the briefest flash of them sitting together just like this on a hundred different weekends in the future. "
17 " There are moments when mental overload can render words impossible. "
18 " Stories are as unique as the people who tell them, and the best stories are in which the ending is a surprise. "
19 " I guess what I'm trying to say is that you two make me believe that true love really exists. And that even the darkest hours can't take that away. "
20 " He felt as though he were failing in practically every area of his life. Lately, happiness seemed as distant and unattainable to him as space travel. He hadn't always felt this way. There had been a long period of time during which he remembered being very happy. But things change. People change. Change was one of the inevitable laws of nature, exacting its toll on people's lives. Mistakes are made, regrets form, and all that was left were repercussions that made something as simple as rising from the bed seem almost laborious. "
