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“Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.”
Today may be a very bad day, but tomorrow may be the best day of your life. You just have to hang on until you get there.
Watch what people do when they think no one’s watching, love. That’s how you’ll know who they really are.
He looked like every hero in every fairy tale I’d ever dreamed come to life. And God, I wanted to believe in heroes again.
But sometimes, I supposed, a girl just had to be her own hero.
“So that will be our story? We bumped into each other here in Napa, fell in love, and impulsively married because we were irrational—but not flighty—with new love?”
For a blink of time, we were just a boy and a girl, running and laughing in the rain on our wedding day.
“You may be her father,” he said quietly, his voice deadly calm, “but you will never lay a hand on my wife again. Am I clear?”
“there’s nothing on earth like the feel of someone who loves you grasping your hand in the dark when you’re lost and afraid.”
Because true love is not only the flower; true love is also the thorns.”
If there’s happiness greater than this, I thought, I can’t imagine what it is.
“Sometimes pain is so great, it feels as if it carves out vital parts of who you are. But love is meant to fill that empty space. If you let it, grief makes more room for love within you. And the love we carry inside makes us strong when nothing else can.
