The saddest people I've met in my life are the ones who don't care deeply about anything at all .
Nicholas SparksYou know the real me," she said, stopping to peer up at him. "More than anyone else.
Nicholas SparksHe was thirty-one now, not too old, but old enough to be lonely. He hadn't dated since he'd been back here, hadn't met anyone who remotely interested him. It was his own fault, he knew. There was something that kept a distance between him and any woman who started to get close, something he wasn't sure he could change even if he tried. And sometimes in the moments right before sleep came, he wondered if he was destined to be alone forever.
Nicholas Sparks