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It'll be hard, but life moves fast-we'll see each other again. I know that. I can feel that. Just like I can feel how much you care for me and how much I love you.
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It's okay to be sad. Everyone gets sad now and then. Even me.
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As these images were going through my head, my breathing suddenly went still. I looked at Jamie, then up to the ceiling and around the room, doing my best to keep my composure, then back to Jamie again. She smiled at me and I smiled at her and all I could do was wonder how I’d ever fallen in love with a girl like Jamie Sullivan.
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Loving someone and having them love you back is the most precious thing in the world. It's what made it possible for me to go on, but you don't seem to realize that. Even when love is right there in front of you, you choose to turn away from it. You're alone because you want to be.
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One of the things I've learned in my life is that sometimes you've got to take a chance.
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That's the thing about life. A lot of the time, it isn't easy at all. We just have to try to make the best of it.
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He liked her; it was as simple as that.
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I love you, Elizabeth... and more than that, I like you. I enjoy spending time with you.
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A typical agent in New York gets 400 query letters a month. Of those, they might ask to read 3-4 manuscripts, and of those, they might ask to represent 1.
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I know we loved each other, but distance can do strange things to people and before I was willing to tell you about it, I wanted to be certain that it would last.
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As the warm air blew in the car, simple snapshots of the life they'd lived together surfaced in his mind; but as always, those images led inexorably to their final day together.
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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.
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That's my sweetheart in there. I'm not living her. This is my home now. Your mother is my home.
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My mom used to tell me that whatever you do, marry someone who loves you more than you love him.
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Maybe we've lived a thousand lives before this one and in each of them we've found each other... I know I've spent every life before this one searching for you. Not someone like you but you, for your soul and mine must always come together.
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But...as bad as it was, I learned something about myself. That I could go through something like that and survive. I mean, I know it could have been worse--a lot worse-- but for me, it was all I could have handled at the time. And I learned from it.
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Stories are as unique as the people who tell them, and the best stories are in which the ending is a surprise.
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You think you know me, but I'm not sure that even I know who I am anymore.
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I think that setting a novel in a small town taps into a sense of nostalgia among readers. People tend to believe life is different in small towns, and frankly, it is different.
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Never forget that God is your friend. And like all friends, He longs to hear what's been happening in your life. Good or bad, whether it's been full of sorrow or anger, or even when you're questioning why terrible things have to happen.
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One day you're going to learn something that can't be explained with science. And when that happens, your life's going to change in ways you can't imagine.
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I truly believe that while love can hurt, love can also heal.
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I have a great wife and it's very easy to be romantic because it makes her happy and then my life is so much better when she's happy.
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Thank you for coming into my life and giving me joy, thank you for loving me and receiving my love in return. Thank you for the memories I will cherish forever. But most of all, thank you for showing me that there will come a time when I can eventually let you go.