Men are like that sometimes - if they meet someone and fall in love, it's real, no matter how fast it happened. But if someone falls for a woman they happen to care about, all they do is question the man's intentions.

I don't want to live the rest of my life thinking about you and dreaming of what might have been. Stay with me, Allie.

Don't take my advice. Or anyone's advice. Trust yourself. For good or for bad, happy or unhappy, it's your life, and what you do with it has always been entirely up to you.

And for an instant, I fantasized about wrapping my arms around her right then and there.

I think, above all, the characters in my novels feel universal to the readers.

How can I describe how much I love you? Is it even possible to describe a love like that? I don’t know, but as I sit here with pen in hand, I know that I have to try.

How about we talk about your love life instead?" "Why? Are you in the mood to be depressed?