The Longest Ride

by Nicholas Sparks

It’s strange, I think, the way our lives turn out. Moments of circumstance, when later combined with conscious decisions and actions and a boatload of hope, can eventually forge a future that seems predestined.

Yet experience has taught me that fate is sometimes cruel and that even a boatload of hope is sometimes not enough.

A truth emerges in any long marriage, and the truth is this: 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.”

“ ‘If there is a heaven, we will find each other again, for there is no heaven without you.’