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“That's why I loved being with you. We could do the simplest things, like toss starfish into the ocean and share a burger and talk and even then I knew that I was fortunate. Because you were the first guy who wasn't constantly trying to impress me. You accepted who you were, but more than that, you accepted me for me. And nothing else mattered-- not my family or your family or anyone else in the world. It was just us.”
― The Best of Me
― The Best of Me
“Being with you never felt wrong. It's the one thing I did right. You're the one thing I did right.”
― Crescendo
― Crescendo
“The biggest coward of a man is to awaken the love of a woman without the intention of loving her.”
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“Grief is love turned into an eternal missing”
― Sister
― Sister
“The worst of it is over now, and I can't say that I am glad. Lose that sense of loss—you have gone and lost something else. But the body moves toward health. The mind, too, in steps. One step at a time. Ask a mother who has just lost a child, How many children do you have? "Four," she will say, "—three," and years later, "Three," she will say, "—four.”
― The Collected Stories
― The Collected Stories
Melina’s 2025 Year in Books
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