Man and wife were supposed to stay together because they’d made their vows in front of God and family.
While I’m not an expect in psychology, I’m of the opinion that anyone – even strangers – can sense the urgency of a request, and most people will usually do the right thing.
Perfect love did that to a person, and this had been perfect.
A woman shaking in fear from demons in her mind, and the old man who loves her more deeply than life itself, crying softly in the corner, his face in his hands.
That she had somehow taken the initiative to learn my name should have struck me then, but it did not. Instead, as she stood on the street with the rain coming down and mascara running onto her cheeks, all I could think was that I’d never seen anyone more beautiful.
A moment later, he plopped down on the sand beside her, and when they accidentally touched, Gabby had the briefest flash of them sitting together just like this on a hundred different weekends in the future.
It took me a long time to realize that distance can ruin even the best of intentions.
Science only goes so far, then comes God. – Noah Calhoun-.
Me. A bad boy. For eating boiled peanuts in the graveyard. Go figure.
That’s the thing about being the product of happily marries parents, You grow up thinking the fairy tale is real, and more than that, you think you’re entitled to live it. So far, though, it wasn’t working out as planned.
There were moments when it honestly seemed as if the world were conspiring against her.
Where do I go from here?
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.
The romantics would call this a love story, the cynics would call it a tragedy. In my mind it’s a little bit of both, and no matter how you choose to view it in the end, it does not change the fact that it involves a great deal of my life and the path I’ve chosen to follow.
That’s good. And speaking of spelling, tell me – do you wrap your head in a towel after you shower?
Now as he watched Katie toying with a ring that wasn’t there, he felt his old investigative instincts kick in. There’d been a husband, he thought; her husband was the missing element. Either she was still married or she wasn’t, but he had an undeniable hunch that Katie was still afraid of him.
I suddenly understood that even love and caring weren’t always enough. They were the concrete bricks of our relationship, but unstable without the mortar of time spent together, time without the threat of imminent separation hanging over us.
I’ll think about you everyday. Part of me is scared that there’ll come a time when you don’t feel the same way, that you’ll somehow forget about what we shared, so this is what I want to do forever.
Then you came along and helped me believe in myself again.
When a person sets a thing in motion, there’s a feeling of unease, almost regret, until you learn the truth.