

“For a moment, I wondered how different my life would have been had they been my parents, but I shook the thought away. I knew my father had done the best he could, and I had no regrets about the way I'd turned out. Regrets about the journey, maybe, but not the destination. Because however it had happened, I'd somehow ended up eating shrimp in a dingy downtown shack with a girl that I already knew I'd never forget.”
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“Youth offers the promise of happiness, but life offers the realities of grief.”
― The Rescue
― The Rescue

“In the end, people should be judged by their actions, since in the end, it was actions that defined everyone.”
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“And for the briefest instant, it almost feels like we're together again.”
― Dear John
― Dear John

“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.”
― The Notebook
― The Notebook

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