In this world that we live in we have originality in literature, but we also have TV and movies. I write love stories. I could never write a love story based on the Titanic - that was never a novel. If I see an idea that's been done in film, I try to avoid that.

Traveling has less to do with seeing things than experiencing them.

While I'm not an expect in psychology, I'm of the opinion that anyone - even strangers - can sense the urgency of a request, and most people will usually do the right thing.

I'm not saying it because I'm sweet. I'm saying it because I love you now and I always have. More than you can imagine.

Allie would love what you've done," he remarked. "She was always a softie when it came to things like this." I folded my hands in my lap. "I wish she could be there this weekend." Noah glanced at the stack of letters. I knew he was imagining Allie, and for a brief moment, he looked strangely younger. "So do I," he said.

All he knew was that they fit somehow, and that he felt as if he spent most of his life traveling a path that led inexorably to her.

A person with autism lives in his own world, while a person with Asperger's lives in our world, in a way of his own choosing