"You always have a choice. It's just that some people make the wrong one."
"People come, people go—they'll drift in and out of your life, almost like characters in a favorite book. When you finally close the cover, the characters have told their story and you start up again with another book, complete with new characters and adventures. Then you find yourself focusing on the new ones, not the ones from the past."
"Loving someone and having them love you back is the most precious thing in the world."
"Everyone has a past, but that's just it—it's in the past. You can learn from it, but you can't change it."
"Because in the end, and no matter how hard it is, acceptance helps people move on with the rest of their lives."
"Where does a story truly begin? In life, there are seldom clear-cut beginnings, those moments when we can, in looking back, say that everything started. Yet there are moments when fate intersects with our daily lives, setting in motion a sequence of events whose outcome we could never have foreseen."
"He's one of those rare men who, when he loves, he does it with all his heart."
"Sometimes the most ordinary things could be made extraordinary, simply by doing them with the right people."
"He was a wonderful man. And when a man is that special, you know it sooner than you think possible. You recognize it instinctively, and you're certain that no matter what happens, there will never be another one like him."
"They promised patience when it was easy to be impatient, candor when it was easier to lie, and in their own ways, each recognized the fact that real commitment could be proven only through the passage of time."
"That in the end, people should be judged by their actions, since in the end, it was actions that defined everyone."
"And though you may call me a dreamer or fool or any other thing, I believe that anything is possible."
"My daddy used to tell me that the first time you fall in love, it changes your life forever, and no matter how hard you try, the feelin' never goes away."
"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."
"It's funny, but have you ever noticed that the more special something is, the more people seem to take it for granted? It's like they think it won't ever change. Just like this house here. All it ever needed was a little attention, and it would never have ended up like this in the first place."
"Love could be set in motion quickly, but true love needed time to grow into something strong and enduring. Love was, above all, about commitment and dedication and a belief that spending years with a certain person would create something greater than the sum of what the two could accomplish separately."
