Love should bring joy, it should grant a person peace, but here and not, it was bringing only pain.

But no matter what was going on in our lives, I could imagine lying beside her in bed at the end of the day, holding her while we talked and laughed, lost in each other's arms

Don't take my advice. Or anyone's advice. Trust yourself. For good or for bad, happy or unhappy, it's your life, and what you do with it has always been entirely up to you.

The truth is, the world isn't easy for any of us. It never has been and it never will be.

I know it can't be the same between us, but that doesn't change the way I felt about you then.

Someday you'll find someone special again. People who've been in love once usually do. It's in their nature.

As a girl, she had come to believe in the ideal man -- the prince or knight of her childhood stories. In the real world, however, men like that simply didn't exist.