I steeled myself to focus only on the present yet remain alert to what might come next.

There are guys who grow up thinking they'll settle down some distant time in the future, and there are guys who are ready for marriage as soon as they meet the right person. The former bore me, mainly because they're pathetic; and the latter, frankly are hard to find.

I've learned that memories can have a physical, almost living presence.

Me. A bad boy. For eating boiled peanuts in the graveyard. Go figure.

It is the possibility that keeps me going, and though you may call me a dreamer or a fool or any other thing, I believe that anything is possible.

Man and wife were supposed to stay together because they'd made their vows in front of God and family.

I was in love, and the feeling was even more wonderful than I ever imagined it could be.