While I sleep, I dream of you, and when I wake, I long to hold you in my arms. If anything, our time apart has only made me more certain that I want to spend my nights by your side, and my days with your heart.

That speaking the words, even if true, had little power to change the inevitable or even make him feel much better.

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.

I'd like to marry you, if you think that would be okay.

I got the sense that he was the kind of person who couldn't hold anger for more than a few minutes, because it just wasn't in him. It could never grow into resentment or bitterness, and I knew then that he was the kind of man who would be married forever. And I decided then and there that I should be the one to marry him.

I am not commanding you, but I want to test the sincerity of your love by comparing it to the earnestness of others.

Gossip is one thing, hurtful gossip is completely another, and even in high school we weren't THAT mean.