“There are moments when I wish I could roll back the clock and take all the sadness away, but I have the feeling that if I did, the joy would be gone as well.”
― A Walk to Remember
― A Walk to Remember
“I gave you the best of me, he'd told her once, and with every beat of her son's heart, she knew he'd exactly done that.”
― The Best of Me
― The Best of Me
“Loving someone and having them love you back is the most precious thing in the world. It's what made it possible for me to go on, but you don't seem to realize that. Even when love is right there in front of you, you choose to turn away from it. You're alone because you want to be.”
― The Rescue
― The Rescue
“Your going to come across people in your life that say all the right things at the right times. But in the end, it's always their actions you should judge them by. it's actions, not words, that matter.”
― The Rescue
― The Rescue
“Because you aren't just someone I loved back then. You were my best friend, my best self, and I can't imagine giving that up again." He hesitated searching for the right words. "You might not understand, but I gave you the best of me, and after you left, nothing was ever the same.”
― The Best of Me
― The Best of Me
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