I want her to be smart and kind... and I want you to fall in love with her, because you shouldn't spend the rest of your life alone.

It's probably not going to lead to anything. But that doesn't mean you shouldn't try. If everyone who thought they might fail didn't even try, where would we be today?

She was sleeping in a quiet bedroom beside her brother, separated only by glass and sand from the young man she loved, a young man who loved her back

Would you stop thinking about what everyone wants. Stop thinking about what I want, what he wants, what your parents want. What do you want?

She leaned into me, and when I closed my eyes, I knew I wanted nothing more than to hold her this way forever.

if they were meant to be together they would find a way to do it.

It hadn't been so long ago, yet sometimes she felt that she'd been an altogether different person back then.