“First you will smile, and then you will cry -- don't say you haven't been warned.”
― A Walk to Remember
― A Walk to Remember
“since the thing perhaps is
to eat flowers and not to be afraid”
― E.E. Cummings: Complete Poems 1904-1962
to eat flowers and not to be afraid”
― E.E. Cummings: Complete Poems 1904-1962
“Passion is passion. It's the excitement between the tedious spaces, and it doesn't matter where it's directed...It can be coins or sports or politics or horses or music or faith...the saddest people I've ever met in life are the ones who don't care deeply about anything at all.”
― Dear John
― Dear John
“Dreams are always crushing when they don't come true. But it's the simple dreams that are often the most painful because they seem so personal, so reasonable, so attainable. You're always close enough to touch, but never quite close enough to hold and it's enough to break your heart.”
― Three Weeks with My Brother
― Three Weeks with My Brother
“Dusk is just an illusion because the sun is either above the horizon or below it. And that means that day and night are linked in a way that few things are there cannot be one without the other yet they cannot exist at the same time. How would it feel I remember wondering to be always together yet forever apart?”
― The Notebook
― The Notebook
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