If you love someone, when it's the most real, the most important thing in your life, it's not enough to coast. You need to dig in those footers, start building on that base. You want something to last, you put your back into it.
Nora RobertsHe Sipped his coffee, watched the flames. "You gave me my life, you did," He insisted when Summerset made a protesting sound. "And I worked-in my fashion- to build this place. I asked you to tend it for me. You've never let me down. But I needed her. The one thing, the only thing that could make this place home." "She's not what I would have chosen for you" "Oh, that I know" "But she's right for you. The one for you." Despite, or maybe due to, her many flaws" "I imagine she thinks the same thing about you". Memory in Death, Roarke and Summerset
Nora RobertsAnd donโt worry.โ Bob, Carterโs best man and colleague, held up a notebook computer. โIโve got it handled on this end. And I memorized the vows just in case he needs me to throw him a line.โ โYouโre a treasure, Bob.โ She waited until she was out of earshot to laugh.
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