More on this book
Community
Kindle Notes & Highlights
there was almost nothing better than a good checklist. Crossing things off was probably the best feeling in the world.
“Ash?” a voice said. I straightened my spine. I’d know that voice anywhere. If I had slipped into a coma, it would wake me up. If I was six feet under, I’d dig myself out of the grave just to be closer to it, which was dramatic and startling and tragic and stupid.
She used to say that any successful relationship had a pickle lover and a pickle hater.
“You’ve always been a sure thing to me,”
How lucky was I to find a man like him, a love like this, so early? And how was I supposed to be thousands of miles apart from him? How was I supposed to say goodbye?
Your history is still part of this picture, but it’s less important than where you are now. There’s a reason that rearview mirrors are small and windshields are big.”
“And I know it’s different, but if I had a second chance to be with the person who felt like the sun and rain and air and everything, I would take it without another thought.”
“And I can tell you from experience that the most precious thing we have is time. There’s never going to be enough of it.”
“We all need a little help to get where we’re going, you know.
It was a nice day. There was still plenty of that winter chill in the air, but it was nice and warm when you stood in the sun. I loved being outside. I was like a sunflower; I always turned to face the sun and bask in it for just a second.
The bravest thing you can do when you love someone is work hard to keep them—to hold on to them with everything you’ve got—and even when you loosen your grip, you don’t let go.”
“I do love you,” he said. “I love you madly and deeply. I love you in ways that people don’t believe exist in real life. I love you for who you’ve been and who you are and who you’re going to be, Ash.”
There he was. The love of my life. My light in the dark. My safe place. My home.
I promise to look at you the way you look at the sky, and I promise to love you in this lifetime and the next.
