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He stared at her, knowing with certainty that he was falling in love. He pulled her close and kissed her beneath a blanket of stars, wondering how on earth he'd been lucky enough to find her.
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These days she simply did the best job she could, accepting the good with the bad.
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But you're disappointed." He brushed a strand of hair from her face. "It's not possible for you to disappoint me.
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I am here to love you, to hold you in my arms, to protect you.
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Single motherhood is a reality for a lot of women in my age group and the time difficulties in their lives are universal.
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What good is talking if neither of you are really committed? If one of you had an affair or got addicted to drugs or was abusive, simply talking about it wouldn;t take the hurt away; or fix the trust that's been lost. In the end, marriage comes down to actions. I think people talk too much about the things that bother them, instead of actually doing the little things that keep a marriage strong.
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But love, I’ve come to understand, is more than three words mumbled before bedtime. Love is sustained by action, a pattern of devotion in the things we do for each other every day.
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How far should a person go in the name of true love?
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Emotions come and go and can't be controlled so there's no reason to worry about them. That in the end, people should be judged by their actions since in the end it was actions that defined everyone.
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We are not perfect. We make mistakes. We screw up but then we forgive and move forward.
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I have come to realize that destiny can hurt a person as much as it can bless him.
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In another place, in another time, she would have felt the majesty of the beauty around her, but as she stood on the beach, she realized that she didn't feel anything at all. In a way, she felt as if she weren't really here, as if the whole thing was nothing but a dream.
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The pieces all fit together. Yet everything was falling apart.
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I'm Catholic, and my wife is Catholic. We're very religious. We go to church. We pray every night. We pray at dinner. To me, Catholics regard themselves as very Christian. Some Christians view Catholics as not necessarily Christian.
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You should not complain, it's not attractive.
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I hadn't done any of the things that I normally did with girls, yet somehow I'd fallen in love.
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But she realized that she wanted him to know her. She wanted him to understand her, if only because she had strange sense that he was the kind of man she could fall in love with, even if she didn't want to.
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It was, I remembered thinking, the most difficult walk anyone ever had to make. In every way, a walk to remember.
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Love is a wonderful thing. It makes life worthwhile. I love being in love.
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In the end you should always do the right thing even if it's hard.
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There were moments in life when violence was necessary to save lives.
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You are the answer to every prayer I've offered. You are a song, a dream, a whisper, and I don't know how I could have lived without you for as long as I have.
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When you chase a dream, you learn about yourself. You learn your capabilities and limitations, and the value of hard work and persistence.
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I love you, Katie. You might not be ready to say those words now, and maybe you'll never be able to say them, but that doesn't change how I feel about you.