There are guys who grow up thinking they'll settle down some distant time in the future, and there are guys who are ready for marriage as soon as they meet the right person. The former bore me, mainly because they're pathetic; and the latter, frankly are hard to find.
Nicholas SparksI can't live my life happily knowing you're with someone else. That would kill a part of me. What we have is rare. it's too beautiful to just throw it away.
Nicholas SparksShe couldnโt read his expression. As he started toward her, she recalled the way heโd seemed to glide through the sand the first time sheโd ever seen him; she remembered their kiss on the boat dock the night of his sisterโs wedding. And she heard again the words sheโd said to him on the day theyโd said good-bye. She was besieged by a storm of conflicting emotionsโdesire, regret, longing, fear, grief, love. There was so much to say, yet what could they really begin to say in this awkward setting and with so much time already passed?
Nicholas SparksShe wasn't, nor ever had been, under the illusion that marriage was a relationship characterized by endless bliss and romance. Throw any two people together, add the inevitable ups and downs, give the mixture a vigorous stir, and a few stormy arguments were inevitable, no matter how the couple loved each other.
Nicholas Sparks