"Who am I? And how, I wonder, will this story end?"

"America was in full swing now, all the papers said so, and people were rushing forward, leaving behind the horrors of war. She understood the reasons, but they were rushing, like Lon, toward long hours and profits, neglecting the things that brought beauty to the world."

"You are my best friend as well as my lover, and I do not know which side of you I enjoy the most. I treasure each side, just as I have treasured our life together."

"In times of grief and sorrow I will hold you and rock you and take your grief and make it my own. When you cry I cry and when you hurt I hurt. And together we will try to hold back the floods to tears and despair and make it through the potholed street of life."

"In our time together, you claimed a special place in my heart, one I'll carry with me forever and that no one can ever replace."

"Would you just stay with me?Stay with you? What for? Look at us! We're already fighting!Well that's what we do! We fight! You tell me when I'm being an arrogant son of a bitch and I tell you when you're being a pain in the ass! Which you are, 99% of the time. I'm not afraid to hurt your feelings, you have like a two-second rebound rate and you're back doing the next pain in the ass thing.So, what?So it's not gonna be easy, it's gonna be really hard. And we're gonna have to work at this everyday, but I wanna do that because I want you. I want all of you, forever. You and me. Everyday."

"There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but I've loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me, this has always been enough."

"What are we after all our dreams, after all our memories?"

"All characters come from people I know, but after the initial inspiration, I tend to modify the characters so they fit with the story."

"She had known the kind of love that was worth risking everything for, the kind of love that was as rare as a glimpse of heaven."

"I want all of you, forever everyday. You and me everyday."

"My daddy said, that the first time you fall in love, it changes you forever and no matter how hard you try, that feeling just never goes away."

"Wandering and confused, lost to myself, ill-assorted, contradictory, Pausing, gazing, bending, and stopping."

"Love is always patient and kind. It is never jealous. Love is never boastful or conceited. It is never rude or selfish. It does not take offense and is not resentful."

"It is the possibility that keeps me going, and though you may call me a dreamer or a fool or any other thing, I believe that anything is possible."

"Experience had taught me that even the most precious memories fade with the passage of time."

"But love, I've come to understand, is more than three words mumbled before bedtime. Love is sustained by action, a pattern of devotion in the things we do for each other every day."

"What can you do when you're condemned to a place where every choice seems wrong - even the one you promised your lover you'd make?"

"I've come to believe that in everyone's life, there's one undeniable moment of change, a set of circumstances that suddenly alters everything."

"Silence is pure and holy. It draws people together because only those who are comfortable with each other can sit without speaking."

"Spending time with you showed me what I've been missing in my life."

"It is life, I think, to watch the water. A man can learn so many things."

"That's good. And speaking of spelling, tell me -- do you wrap your head in a towel after you shower?"

"I'm sure you think that I don't understand what you're going through, but I do. It's just that sometimes, our future is dictated by what we are, opposed to what we want."

"I don't pray because it doesn't work. Prayer doesn't fix anything. Bad things happen anyway."

"If you're going to sit on someone's tombstone, you might as well know something about them, right?"

"Believe me, I'm no romantic, and while I've heard all about love at first sight, I've never believed in it, and I still don't. But even so, there was something there, something recognizably real, and I couldn't look away."

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

"I've learned that we're all entitled to have our secrets."

"I'm writing a new love story, set in eastern North Carolina. Surprise, surprise, huh?"

"Its easy to fall for someone that will find humor in every situation."

"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 understand women" ... There's no man alive who can honestly say those words and mean them. It just isn't possible, so there's no use trying. But that doesn't mean you can't love them anyway. And it doesn't mean that you should ever stop doing your best to let them know how important they are to you!"

"You should read something else."Why would he have done that to him?"I don't know," she said.Do you ever feel like Job?"She smiled, a little twinkle in her eyes.Sometimes."But you haven't lost your faith?"No," I knew she hadn't, but I think I was losing mine.Is it because you think you might get better?"No," she said,"its because its the only thing I have left."

"Having kids means taking care of them, raising them, loving and supporting them, and none of those things have anything to do with who makes them one night in the bedroom or the experience of being pregnant."

"There's always pressure, a great deal of pressure, when writing, since my first books were so successful."

"When I look in the mirror, I know I'm looking at someone who isn't sure she deserves to be loved at all."

"I dont think that we're meant to understand it all the time. I think that sometimes we just have to have faith."

"The emotion that can break your heart is sometimes the very one that heals it..."

"She leaned into me, and when I closed my eyes, I knew I wanted nothing more than to hold her this way forever."

"But I was also told to hold doors for women and children, to shake hands with a firm grip, to remember people's names, and to always give the customer a little more than expected."

"I don't care if your dad is the Sultan of Brunei. You happened to be born into a privileged family. What you do with that truth is completely up to you. I'm here because I want to be with you. But if I didn't, all the money in the world wouldn't have changed my feelings for you."

"The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected. Maybe they always have been and will be. Maybe we've lived a thousand lives before this one and in each of them we've found each other. And maybe each time, we've been forced apart for the same reasons. That means that this goodbye is both a goodbye for the past ten thousand years and a prelude to what will come."

"That initial anger she had felt turned to sadness, and now it had become something else, almost a dullness of sorts. Even though she was constantly in motion, it seemed as if nothing special ever happened to her anymore. Each day seemed exactly like the last, and she had trouble differentiating among them."

"The pieces all fit together. Yet everything was falling apart."

"He was the toast to her butter."

"More than anything, he wanted to return to the house with the same look of peace that he'd seen on Pastor Harris's face, but he trudged through the sand, he couldn't help feeling like an amateur, someone searching for God's truths like a child searching for seashells."

"You think you know me, but I'm not sure that even I know who I am anymore."

"You can't live your life for other people. You've got to do what's right for you, even if it hurts some people you love."

"You really love her don't you," she said.With all my heart."She looked as sad as I'd ever seen her.What's your heart telling you to do?"I don't know."Maybe", she said gently,"You're trying to hard to hear it."