There is nothing like love. You should try it.” Thibault shrugged. “Maybe one day.

It's strange, I think, the way our lives turn out. Moments of circumstance, when later combined with conscious decisions and actions and a boatload of hope, can eventually forge a future that seems predestined.

While wounds can be inflicted easily upon those we love, it's often much more difficult to heal them.

but she realized that she wanted him to know her. She wanted him to understand her, if only because she had strange sense that he was the kind of man she could fall in love with, even if she didn't want to.

Experience had taught me that even the most precious memories fade with the passage of time.

I am nothing special, of this I am sure. I am a common man with common thoughts and I've led a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but I've loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me, this has always been enough.

Gifts of the heart can't be claimed by anyone except the giver.