Debbie

“If he weren't so damn cute, none of this would have happened.”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Last Song

“A boy and a girl were insanely in love with each other,” my mother’s voice was saying. “They decided to become engaged. And that’s when presents are always exchanged.

The boy was poor–his only worthwhile possession was a watch he’d inherited from his grandfather. Thinking about his sweetheart’s lovely hair, he decided to sell the watch in order to buy her a silver barrette.

The girl had no money herself to buy him a present. She went to the shop of the most successful merchant in the town and sold him her hair. With the money, she bought a gold watchband for her lover.

When they met on the day of the engagement party, she gave him the wristband for a watch he had sold, and he gave her the barrette for the hair she no longer had”
― Paulo Coelho, By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

“if they were meant to be together they would find a way to do it.”
― Nicholas Sparks, Message in a Bottle

“She sat still, trying to hush her secret heart.”
― Margaret Landon