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I came to the conclusion that unrealized hopes, even small ones, were always wrenching.
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There were moments in life when violence was necessary to save lives.
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I’m stuck babysitting turtle eggs while a volleyball player slash grease monkey slash aquarium volunteer tries to hit on me.” I’m not hitting on you,” he protested. No?” Believe me, you’d know if I was hitting on you. You wouldn’t be able to stop yourself from succumbing to my charms.
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I want to wake up with you beside me in the mornings. I want to spend my evenings looking at you across the dinner table. I want to share every mundane detail of my day with you and hear every detail of yours. I want to laugh with you and fall asleep with you in my arms.
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Because it protects you. And when I jumped from the Humvee, I believed it would save me, too, in the same way you believe it will always save you.” “No, I don’t,” Thibault began. “Then why, my friend, do you still carry it with you?
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The pieces all fit together. Yet everything was falling apart.
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Being around someone who accepts and supports you will remind you to accept and support yourself.
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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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I love you more than there are stars in the sky and fish in the sea.
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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 should bring joy, it should grant a person peace, but here and not, it was bringing only pain.
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And believe it or not, she has a phone and everything. She stopped using smoking signals last year.
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In time, the hurt began to fade and it was easier to just let it go. At least I thought it was. But in every boy I met in the next few years, I found myself looking for you, and when the feelings got too strong, I'd write you another letter. But I never sent them for fear of what I might find. By then, you'd gone on with your life and I didn't want to think about you loving someone else. I wanted to remember us like we were that summer. I didn't ever want to lose that.
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Just when you think it can't get any worse, it can. And just when you think it can't get any better, it can.
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As I write, I am struggling with the ghost of someone I loved and lost. I now understand more fully the difficulties you were going through, and I realize how painful it must have been for you to move on.
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Loving someone and having them love you back is the most precious thing in the world.
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I dont think that we're meant to understand it all the time. I think that sometimes we just have to have faith.
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I knew it wasn't fair, I knew it was wrong, but I couldn't help it. And after a while, the anger I felt just sort of became part of me, like it was the only way I knew how to handle the grief. I didn't like who I'd become, but I was stuck in this horrible cycle of questions and blame.
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Then you came along and helped me believe in myself again.
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I have seldom been described as shy.
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It took strength to hold on to inner passion, and Noah had done that.
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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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That's how I always want to remember my time with you. Like a pure white light, breathtaking to behold.
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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.