People want to believe that every marriage is perfect balance but it isn't. One person always loves more deeply than the other

i'm sorry she never got her miracle. she did get her miracle, Landon, her miracle was you.

In all my life, I'd never been as sure of anything, and as much as I hoped to one day hear Savannah say these words to me, what mattered most was knowing that love was mine to give, without strings or expectations.

By making the place and the people and the feelings real, by the time someone closes the cover of one of my books, they have, hopefully, felt all of the emotions of life.

I am not commanding you, but I want to test the sincerity of your love by comparing it to the earnestness of others.

I know it can't be the same between us, but that doesn't change the way I felt about you then.

"Aren't you frightened?" Somehow I expected her to say no, to say something wise like a grownup would, or to explain that we can't presume to understand the Lord's plan. She looked away. "Yes," she finally said, "I'm frightened all the time." "Then why don't you act like it?" "I do. I just do it in private." "Because you don't trust me?" "No," she said, "because I know you're frightened, too."