And 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.
Miracles do happen.
Would you do something for me? Please? Would you just picture your life for me? Thirty years from now, forty years from now? What’s it look like? If it’s with that guy, go. Go! I lost you once, I think I could do it again, if I thought it’s what you really wanted.
If he weren’t so damn cute, none of this would have happened.
The world is a better place when you smile.
This is my story; I promise to leave nothing out. First you will smile, and then you will cry – don’t say you haven’t been warned.
And that leaves me with the belief that miracles, no matter how inexplicable or unbelievable, are real and can occur without regard to the natural order of things.
Say I’m a bird.
Everyone has crap in their background, everyone has things they wish they could undo. But most people don’t go around doing their best to screw up their present lives because of it.
That life isn’t fair?” Yeah, that, of course. But I also learned that it’s possible to go on, no matter how impossible it seems, and that in time, the grief... lessens.
I love you too, Will Blakelee,” she whispered, leaning in to kiss him again.
Remember me with joy, for this is how I always thought of you. That is what I want, more than anything. I want you to smile when you think of me. And in your smile, I will live forever.
There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but I’ve loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me, this has always been enough.
I know I’m not going to be able to change the world, but I think it’s important to try to make a difference.
I think that the point is that people rarely understand that nothing is ever exactly what you think it will be.
Not everything,” he said. “Not the important things. My kids are safe. You’re safe. That’s all I really care about. This” – he said motioning – “is just stuff. Most of it can be replaced. It just takes time.
Marriage, each of them realized intuitively, was about compromise and forgiveness. It was about balance, where one person complemented the other.
Giving voice to the truth of her past meant opening the door to the future.
Katie was reminded again that love can sometimes achieve the impossible.
I sold the collection because I finally understood what true love really meant. Tim had told me-and shown me-that love meant that you care for another person’s happiness more than your own, no matter how painful the choices you face might be.” – John Tyree.