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.

Everyone has a past, but that's just it--it's in the past. You can learn from it, but you can't change it.

I don't know that love changes. People change. Circumstances change.

The best love is the kind that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more, that plants a fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds. And that's what you've given me. That's what I'd hoped to give you forever

The past was gone and the future had yet to unfold, and he knew he should focus his life on the present. Yet his day-to-day existence suddenly struck him as endless and unbearable.

The past can be escaped only by embracing something better.

Yes... it wasn't over, it still isn't over.