Even when we were standing in church and I was getting ready to take my vow I can remember wishing that you were standing there instead of him.

maturity meant thinking about risk long before you pondered the reward, and that success and happiness in life were as much about avoiding mistakes as making your mark into the world.

He closed his eyes as she put her hand on his shoulder, and in that instant, nothing else mattered. Not the song, not the place, not the other couples around him. Only this, only her. He gave himself over to the feel of her body as it pressed against him, and they moved slowly in small circles on the sawdust-strewn floor, lost in a world that felt as though it had been created for just the two of them.

Love is the essence of a full and wonderful life.

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.

Knowing there's one thing I still haven't told you: I now believe, by the way, that miracles can happen.

Some things were beyond understanding.