I’ve come to believe that in everyone’s life, there’s one undeniable moment of change, a set of circumstances that suddenly alters everything.
It’s impossible to protect your kids against disappointment in life.
It’s funny, but have you ever noticed that the more special something is, the more people seem to take it for granted? It’s like they think it won’t ever change. Just like this house here. All it ever needed was a little attention, and it would never have ended up like this in the first place.
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.
A sad smile crossed her face, and I knew right then what she was trying to tell me. Her eyes never left mine as she finally said the words that numbed my soul. I’m dying, Landon.
I know the Lord has a plan for us all, but sometimes, I just don’t understand what the message can be.
Women are more attuned to feelings than men are, and if they’re not being truthful, more often than not it’s because they think truth might hurt your feelings. But it doesn’t mean they don’t love you.
Before we met, I was as lost as a person could be and yet you saw something in me that somehow gave me direction again.
God, he suddenly understood, was love in its purest form, and in these last months with his children, he had felt His touch as surely as he had heard the music spilling from Ronnie’s hands.
There are guys who grow up thinking they’ll settle down some distant time in the future, and there are guys who are ready for marriage as soon as they meet the right person. The former bore me, mainly because they’re pathetic; and the latter, frankly are hard to find.
I steeled myself to focus only on the present yet remain alert to what might come next.
When I was seventeen, I don’t think I even knew what love was. But when it’s right, it’s right, and you just know it.
If you come back; I’ll marry you. If you break your promise, you’ll break my heart.
Don’t take my advice. Or anyone’s advice. Trust yourself. For good or for bad, happy or unhappy, it’s your life, and what you do with it has always been entirely up to you.
At times, he even admitted that he’d been more an observer of the world than a participant in it...
Every girl is beautiful. Sometimes it just takes the right guy to see it.
Everyone has a past, but that’s just it – it’s in the past. You can learn from it, but you can’t change it.
When you chase a dream, you learn about yourself. You learn your capabilities and limitations, and the value of hard work and persistence.
Change not only was inevitable, but usually brought its own rewards.
It made perfect sense, and at the same time nothing seemed to.