It’s never too late to do the right thing.

The two of you, there's something uncanny about the way you two are with each other. I mean everything--the way you look at each other, the way she relaxes when you put your hand on her back, the way you both seem to know what the other is always thinking, it's always struck me as extraordinary. That's another reason I keep putting marriage off. I know I want something like what you two share, and I'm not sure I've found it yet. I'm not sure I ever will. And with love like that, they say anything's possible, right?

You know how gossip is. It's the toxic waste of small town

But you're disappointed." He brushed a strand of hair from her face. "It's not possible for you to disappoint me.

The emotion that can break your heart is sometimes the very one that heals it.

I'm writing a new love story, set in eastern North Carolina. Surprise, surprise, huh?

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.