I am still yours, Allie, my queen, my timeless beauty. You are, and always have been, the best thing in my life

That's the thing about life. A lot of the time, it isn't easy at all. We just have to try to make the best of it.

For desert, maybe we can split a couple of crumbs.

Were all first loves like that? Somehow she doubted it; even now it struck her as being more real than anything she'd ever known. Sometimes it saddened her to think that she'd never experience that kind of feeling again, but then life had a way of stamping out that intensity of passion; she'd learned all too well that love wasn't always enough.

Why did you say you believed me ?" In profile, he could see both the young woman she was becoming and the little girl he remembered. "Because I trust you.

Yet I have come to believe that while the past is unchangeable, our perceptions of is are malleable.

Just when you think it can't get worse, it can. And just when you think it can't get any better, it will. But as long as you remember that he loves you and you love him you'll be just fine.