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There are memories for both of us, of course, but I've learned that memories can have a physical, almost living presence, and in this, Savannah and I are different as well.If hers are stars in the nighttime sky, mine are the haunted empty spaces in beetween...
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You don't know how strong something is until you actually test it.
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Marriage is about compromise; it's about doing something for the other person, even when you don't want to.
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Yet experience has taught me that fate is sometimes cruel and that even a boatload of hope is sometimes not enough.
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Marriage is a partnership, not a democracy.
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If a woman truly loves you, you can't always expect her to tell the truth. You see, women are more attuned to feelings than men are, and if they're not being truthful, more often than not it's because they think the truth might hurt your feelings. But that doesn't mean they don't love you. If they do lie, it's because they care.
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If you're going to sit on someone's tombstone, you might as well know something about them, right?
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I wish we didn't live so far apart... You're kind of addicting.
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maturity meant thinking about risk long before you pondered the reward, and that success and happiness in life were as much about avoiding mistakes as making your mark into the world.
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In another time and place, she might have felt differently, but thinking along those lines was pointless now.
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It was what she'd most enjoyed about being married to Jim. It wasn't only the heady flush of emotions when they'd made love that enthralled her; more than that, it was the lazy mornings they'd spent reading the newspaper in bed while drinking coffee, or the cold December mornings they'd planted bulbs in the garden, or the hours they'd spent traipsing through various stores, picking out bedroom furniture, debating cherry or maple. Those were..
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But a risk-free life wasn't much of a life, really, and if she was going to change, she might as well start now.
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The only thing I do know for sure is that if we both want to, we'll find a way to make it work.
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if you put your trust in God, you'll be all right in the end.
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I'm sorry' I said again. Whenever someone tells you something said, it's the only thing you can think to say, even if you're already said it before.
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Jamie saved my life. She taught me everything. About life, hope and the long journey ahead. I'll always miss her. But our love is like the wind. I can't see it, but I can feel it.
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She leaned into me, and when I closed my eyes, I knew I wanted nothing more than to hold her this way forever.
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It's your eyes. They're ... more serious than they used to be. Like they've seen things they shouldn't have.
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He closed his eyes as she put her hand on his shoulder, and in that instant, nothing else mattered. Not the song, not the place, not the other couples around him. Only this, only her. He gave himself over to the feel of her body as it pressed against him, and they moved slowly in small circles on the sawdust-strewn floor, lost in a world that felt as though it had been created for just the two of them.
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grown-ups always say that things are complicated.
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I think that the point is that people rarely understand that nothing is ever exactly what you think it will be.
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Even if I thought he as perfect for her." She turned to face him. "What were we thinking?" "We weren't," he said. "We were in love."
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She'd always believed that people come in two varieties: those who look out the windshield and those who stare in the rearview mirror. She'd(Julie) always been the windshield type: gotta focus on the future, not the past, because that's the only part that's still up for grabs. Mom throws me out? Gotta get some food and find a place to live. Husband dies? Gotta keep working, or I'll end up going crazy. Got some guy stalking me? Gotta figure ..
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Jamie was more than just the woman I loved. In the year Jamie helped me become the man I am today. With her steady hand she showed how important it was to help others; with her patience and kindness she showed me what life really is all about. Her cheerfulness and optimism, even in times of sickness, was the most amazing thing I have ever witnessed . . .
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As they spoke, the only thing I could think about was that scene from Julius Caesar where Brutus stabs him in the back. Et tu, Eric?
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Do not worry about tomorrow until you have to.
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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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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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But more than that, he admired the way she'd always spoken her mind. He remembered that after they'd gone out a few times, he'd said to her what he said to all women he dated-that he wasn't ready for a steady relationship. Unlike the others, though, Allie had simply nodded and said, "Fine." But on her way out the door, she'd turned and said: "But your problem isn't me, or your job, or your freedom, or whatever else you think it is. Your pro..
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Science only goes so far, then comes God. - Noah Calhoun-
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More than anything, he wanted to return to the house with the same look of peace that he'd seen on Pastor Harris's face, but he trudged through the sand, he couldn't help feeling like an amateur, someone searching for God's truths like a child searching for seashells.
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Would you do something for me? Please? Would you just picture your life for me? Thirty years from now, forty years from now? What's it look like? If it's with that guy, go. Go! I lost you once, I think I could do it again, if I thought it's what you really wanted.
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Me. A bad boy. For eating boiled peanuts in the graveyard. Go figure.
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It took me a long time to realize that distance can ruin even the best of intentions.
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No one in my family or my circle of friends had ever had to confront something like this. Jamie was seventeen, a child on the verge of womanhood, dying and still very much alive at the same time. I was afraid, more afraid than I'd ever been, not only for her, but for me as well. I lived in fear of doing something wrong, of doing something that would offend her. Was it okay to ever get angry in her presence? Was it okay to talk about the fut..
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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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It all comes down to who is by your side and who is willing to stand up for love even when it seems impossible.
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sometimes our future is dictated by what we are, as opposed to what we want.
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I knew you loved me and that you'd do anything for me. And that was one of the reasons it hurt so much when you ended it, Dawson. Because I knew even then how rare that kind of love is. Only the luckiest people get to experience it at all.
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If he weren't so damn cute, none of this would have happened.
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I love you, Allie. I am who I am because of you. You are every reason, every hope, and every dream I've ever had, and no matter what happens to us in the future, every day we are together is the greatest day of my life. I will always be yours. And, my darling, you will always be mine.
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My daddy used to tell me 'the first time you fall in love it changes your life forever, and no matter how hard you try, the feelin' never goes away. This girl you been tellin' me about was your first love. And no matter what you do, she'll stay with you forever.
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There were moments when it honestly seemed as if the world were conspiring against her.
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If people don't like you, or they think you're strange, then that's their problem.
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