They don't like the thought of someone else making demands on the person whom they see as belonging entirely to them.

Would you give up your vengeance against someone you hate if it meant saving someone you love? Would you want your dreams to come true if it meant granting your enemy's dying wish?

He insisted that stars were people so well loved, they were traced in constellations, to live forever

Three months ago, if you asked me, I would have told you that if you really loved someone, you’d let them go. But now I look at you, and I dreamed about Maggie, and I see that I’ve been wrong. If you really love someone, Allie, I think you have to take them back.

I imagine the touch of someone who loves you so much, he cannot bear to watch you sleep; and so you wake up with his hand on your heart.

eskimos maybe? believed stars were holes in the sky where people who died could peek through at you

I wonder if other mothers feel a tug at their insides, watching their children grow up into the people they themselves wanted so badly to be.