Outside the hospital, I squinted in the harsh morning sunlight. I could hear birds chirping in the tree, but even though I searched for them, they remained hidden from me.

I'll be anything you want, just tell me what you want and I'll be that.

You can't live your life for other people. You've got to do what's right for you, even if it hurts some people you love.

Thank you for trusting me.

Dramatic fiction - William Shakespeare made his biggest mark writing dramatic love stories.

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.

She couldn't think of anyone else who remotely resembled him. He was complicated, almost contradictory in so many ways, yet simple, a strangely erotic combination. On the surface he was a country boy, home from war, and he probably saw himself in those terms. Yet there was so much more to him. Perhaps it was the poetry that made him different, or perhaps it was the values his father had instilled in him, growing up. Either way, he seemed to savor life more fully than others appeared to, and that was what had first attracted her to him.