Dear John

by Nicholas Sparks

If hers are stars in the nighttime sky, mine are the haunted empty spaces in between.

Our story has three parts: a beginning, a middle, and an end. And although this is the way all stories unfold, I still can’t believe that ours didn’t go on forever.

You fight for your friend, to keep him alive, and he fights for you, and everything about the army is built on this simple premise.

Passion is passion. It’s the excitement between the tedious spaces, and it doesn’t matter where it’s directed.”

the saddest people I’ve ever met in life are the ones who don’t care deeply about anything at all. Passion and satisfaction go hand in hand, and without them, any happiness is only temporary, because there’s nothing to make it last.

“My dad always said that when you’re struggling with something, look at all the people around you and realize that every single person you see is struggling with something, and to them, it’s just as hard as what you’re going through.”

In the end, it’s only God’s judgment that matters, and I’ve learned enough to know that no one can presume to know the will of God.”

She had the rare ability to be exactly what people needed when she was with them and yet still remain true to herself.

And when her lips met mine, I knew that I could live to be a hundred and visit every country in the world, but nothing would ever compare to that single moment when I first kissed the girl of my dreams and knew that my love would last forever.

A person with autism lives in his own world, while a person with Asperger’s lives in our world, in a way of his own choosing.

I knew that if I lived to be a thousand, I would never forget how exquisite she looked at that moment.

it’s possible to go on, no matter how impossible it seems, and that in time, the grief… lessens. It may not ever go away completely, but after a while it’s not overwhelming.

Love should bring joy, it should grant a person peace, but here and now, it was bringing only pain.

In any marriage, there’s room for only two people.

love meant that you care for another person’s happiness more than your own, no matter how painful the choices you face might be.