The Longest Ride

by Nicholas Sparks

One of my father’s Rules for Life was to marry a woman who was smarter than you.

I’m just a toy the bull gets to play with until I can get away.”

Then she told me that it was my job to prove that she hadn’t been lying, because that’s what sons were supposed to do for their mothers.

Our spouses sometimes know us better than we even know ourselves.

“If we’d never met, I think I would have known that my life wasn’t complete. And I would have wandered the world in search of you, even if I didn’t know who I was looking for.”

‘We all know that art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth, at least the truth that is given us to understand.’ ”