I gave you the best of me, he'd told her once, and with every beat of her son's heart, she knew he'd done exactly that.

In the distance, he could see Molly lying in the tall grass off to the side of the house.

That's the thing about being the product of happily marries parents, You grow up thinking the fairy tale is real, and more than that, you think you're entitled to live it. So far, though, it wasn't working out as planned.

I finally understood what true love meant...love meant that you care for another person's happiness more than your own, no matter how painful the choices you face might be.

I suddenly understood that even love and caring weren't always enough. They were the concrete bricks of our relationship, but unstable without the mortar of time spent together, time without the threat of imminent separation hanging over us.

write what readers want to read, which isn’t necessarily what you want to write.

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.