Poetry, she thought, wasn’t written to be analyzed; it was meant to inspire without reason, to touch without understanding.

I have faith that God will show you the answer. But you have to understand that sometimes it takes a while to be able to recognize what God wants you to do. That’s how it often is. God’s voice is usually nothing more than a whisper, and you have to listen very carefully to hear...

He’d lived long enough to know that everyone handled grief in different ways, and little by little, they all seemed to accept their new lives.

There’s a lot of magic between you too, ain’t no denying that. And magic makes forgettin’ hard.

I think it happens to everyone as they grow up. You find out who you are and what you want, and then you realize that people you’ve known forever don’t see things the way you do. And so you keep the wonderful memories, but find yourself moving on.

If you discovered something that made you tighten inside, you had better try to learn more about it.

It all comes down to who’s by your side.

Every couple has ups and downs, every couple argues, and that’s the thing—you’re a couple, and couples can’t function without trust.

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

Distance can ruin even the best of intentions.But I suppose it depends on how you look at it.Distance just adds a richness you would not otherwise get.People come. People go. They will drift in and out of your life, almost like characters in a favorite book.When you finally close the cover, the characters have told...

If it’s over, then don’t let the past screw up the rest of your life.

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...

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

If you love Alex now, then love him forever. Make him laugh again, and cherish the time you spend together. Take walks and ride your bikes, curl up on the couch and watch movies beneath a blanket. Make him breakfast, but don’t spoil him. Let him make breakfast for you as well, so he can...

As a girl, she had come to believe in the ideal man — the prince or knight of her childhood stories. In the real world, however, men like that simply didn’t exist.

You have no idea how much the last few days have meant to me,” I began. “Meeting you has been the best thing that’s ever happened to me.” I hesitated, know that if I stopped now, I’d never be able to say it to anyone. “I love you,” I whispered. “Did you ever imagine something...

Three weeks ago, he’d seen hail fall from the sky, onlyto be followed minutes later by a spectacular rainbow that seemed to frame the azalea bushes. The colors, so vivid they seemed almost alive, made him think that nature sometimes sends us signs, that it’s important to remember that joy can always follow despair. But...

Yet I have come to believe that while the past is unchangeable, our perceptions of is are malleable…

He wanted to say that all this talk of feelings was irrelevant. Thatemotions come and go and can’t be controlled, so there’s no reason to worry about them. That in the end, people should be judged by their actions, since in the end, it was actions that defined everyone.

He wanted to hear her concerns and alleviate them, he wanted to hold her and kiss her and convince her that he would find a way to make their relationship work, no matter how hard that might be. He wanted to to make her hear his words: that he couldn’t imagine a lofe without her,that...

Emotions come and go and can’t be controlled so there’s no reason to worry about them. That in the end, people should be judged by their actions since in the end it was actions that defined everyone.

It doesn’t sound so far-fetched, right? When two people love each other? While a part of me still wants to believe it’s possible, I know it’s not going to happen

We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has taken a lifetime to learn. It seems only the old are able to sit next to one another and not say anything and still feel content. The young, brash and impatient, must always break the silence. It is a waste, for silence is pure....

Jamie: You know what I figured out today?Landon: What?Jamie: Maybe God has a bigger plan for me than I had for myself. Like this journey never ends. Like you were sent to me because I’m sick. To help me through all this. You’re my angel.

He wasn’t into one-night stands, he wasn’t into scoring just to see if he could, he wasn’t into acting just charming enough to get what he wanted before cutting loose in favor of someone new and attractive. He just wasn’t like that. He would never be like that. When he met a girl, the first...

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.

You are, and always have been, my dream.

He was the toast to her butter.

Dusk is just an illusion because the sun is either above the horizon or below it. And that means that day and night are linked in a way that few things are there cannot be one without the other yet they cannot exist at the same time. How would it feel I remember wondering to...

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...

The greater the love, the greater the tragedy when it’s over.

True love is rare, and it’s the only thing that gives life real meaning.

and all I could think was that I would like to spend every morning for the rest of my life waking up beside her

How far should a person go in the name of true love?

Promoting a book is always the same-busy but fun. I like to meet people who enjoy my work.

Movies are fun, movies are an honor, but it’s not something I dwell upon.

Loving once and only once is possible-anything is possible.

I learned what is obvious to a child. That life is simply a collection of little lives, each lived one day at a time. That each day should be spent finding beauty in flowers and poetry and talking to animals. That a day spent with dreaming and sunsets and refreshing breezes cannot be bettered.

My life? It isn’t easy to explain. It has not been the rip-roaring spectacular I fancied it would be, but neither have I burrowed with the gophers. I suppose it has most resembled the blue chip stock; fairly stable, more ups than downs, and gradually trending upward over time. A good buy, a lucky buy...

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

A person can get used to anything, if given enough time.

As for writing the second novel, the pressure was immense, but hey, what’s life without a little challenge? I just sat down and forced myself to write and in the end, it sold as many copies as the first novel did.

It’s very difficult to find someone when you don’t know the parent’s names or have a street address,

By reading a lot of novels in a variety of genres, and asking questions, it’s possible to learn how things are done – the mechanics of writing, so to speak – and which genres and authors excel in various areas.

The key to happiness was achievable dreams.

E’ la possibilità, non la garanzia, quella che mi fa andare avanti. Una specie di scomessa da parte mia. E chiamatemi pure pazzo, o sognatore o quel che vi pare, io credo che tutto sia possibile.

And suddenly she knew exactly why Catherine had fallen in love with him. It wasn’t that he was unusually attractive, or ambitious, or even charming. He was partly those things, but more important, he seemed to live life on his own terms.

Con el tiempo uno se acostumbra a todo.

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

If I wasn’t doing this, I have no idea what I’d be doing.