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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.Nicholas Sparks
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You're still alive. And that means you'll love and be loved...and in the end, nothing else really matters.Nicholas Sparks
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Everyone wanted to believe that endless love was possible. She'd believed in it once too, back when she was eighteen. But she knew that love was messy, just like life. It took turns that people couldn't foresee or even understand, leaving a long trail of regret in its wake. And almost always, those regrets led to the kinds of what if questions that could never be answered.Nicholas Sparks
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I've never been afraid of them. Not once. Because I had you.Nicholas Sparks
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Marriage is a partnership, not a democracy.Nicholas Sparks
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You might not understand, but I gave you the best of me, and after you left, nothing was ever the same.Nicholas Sparks
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He was a solitary figure in a vast landscape while she was a face in a nameless crowd.Nicholas Sparks
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I gave you the best of me.Nicholas Sparks
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There's a lot of magic between you too, ain't no denying that. And magic makes forgettin' hard.Nicholas Sparks
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She'd either be a heartless mother and wife or a spineless enabler, when all she really wanted was the man she'd once believed him to be.Nicholas Sparks
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She had known the kind of love that was worth risking everything for, the kind of love that was as rare as a glimpse of heaven.Nicholas Sparks
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Even when we were standing in the church and I was getting ready to take my vows, I can remember wishing that you were standing there, instead of him. Because I not only still loved you, but loved you beyond measure.Nicholas Sparks
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They were inlove, but they hadn't been lovers; they were friends and yet also strangers for so many yearsNicholas Sparks
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It was a life, she eventually concluded, that had been lived in the middle ground, where contentment and love were found in the smallest details of people's lives. It was a life of dignity and honor, not without sorrows yet fulfilling in a way that few experiences ever were.Nicholas Sparks