That's why I loved being with you. We could do the simplest things, like toss starfish into the ocean and share a burger and talk and even then I knew that I was fortunate. Because you were the first guy who wasn't constantly trying to impress me. You accepted who you were, but more than that, you accepted me for me. And nothing else mattered-- not my family or your family or anyone else in the world. It was just us.

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

Marriage is about compromise; it's about doing something for the other person, even when you don't want to.

...there are people who added goodness to the world and people who lived to destroy it.

I consider myself foremost a novelist with the intent of crafting stories that people will remember.

No drowning man can know which drop of water his last breath did stop.

She laughed, and the sound was so melodic that I knew I wanted to hear it again.