Youth offers the promise of happiness, but life offers the realities of grief.

I read over a hundred books a year and have done so since I was fifteen years old, and every book I've read has taught me something.

When I told you that I’d pray for you, what did you think I was talking about?

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

It was a lesson that I would learn in time though it wasn't Hegbert who taught me.

And when I came in with tears in my eyes, you always knew whether I needed you to hold me or just let me be. I don't know how you knew, but you did, and you made it easier for me.

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.