Beauty might prevail in the very short term, but in the medium and longer terms, cultural norms - primarily those values and norms influenced by family - were more important.

I can’t make this decision for you…this one’s yours. I want you to know, though, that I love you. And I always will. I know that doesn’t help, but it’s all I can do.

If you look for me, I'm in the fiction section. Romance has its own section.

Quote of the day: The most difficult journeys often take us where we were meant to go... By: Nicholas Sparks

A woman shaking in fear from demons in her mind, and the old man who loves her more deeply than life itself, crying softly in the corner, his face in his hands.

I love you now for what we've already shared, and I love you now in anticipation of all that's to come.

Sometimes, things don't work out the way we want them to.