“But you’re so busy changing the worldJust one smile can change all of mine”

“Daddy,” I whispered, feeling my own breath hitch in my throat. “I love you.”Just when I was sure he was asleep, the one corner of his mouth lifted in a smile. “I knew that,” he murmured. “Always knew that.”

“Many, many readers have written asking me wistfully about the nature of Sam and Grace’s relationship, and I can assure you, that sort is absolutely real. Mutual, respectful, enduring love is completely attainable as long as you swear you won’t settle for less.”

“It’s easy to fall in love, Ben. The hard part comes when you want out.”

“We should love, not fall in love, because everything that falls, gets broken.”

“The truth was…he was in love with her. Totally over-the-line, no-going-back, not-even-dead-would-he-part kind of shit.”

“You are what happiness means to me. And I would rather have today with you than forever with anyone else.”

“Give me the Love that leads the wayThe Faith that nothing can dismayThe Hope no disappointments tireThe Passion that’ll burn like fireLet me not sink to be a clodMake me Thy fuel, Flame of God”

“Everything about her has to do with me.”

“I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.”

“I love you, he thought, looking at Win. I love every part of you, every thought and word… the entire complex, fascinating bundle of all the things you are. I want you with ten different kinds of need at once. I love all the seasons of you, the way you are now, the thought of how much more beautiful you’ll be in the decades to come. I love you for being the answer to every question my heart could ask.And it seemed so easy, once he capitulated. It seemed natural and right.Kev wasn’t certain if he was surrendering to Win or to his own passion for her. Only that there was no more holding back. He would take her. And he would give her everything he had, every part of his soul, even the broken pieces.”

“Intrigued by that enigma, he dug so deeply into her sentiments that in search of interest he found love, because by trying to make her love him he ended up falling in love with her.”

“Every time I read to her, it was like I was courting her, because sometimes, just sometimes, she would fall in love with me again, just like she had a long time ago. And that’s the most wonderful feeling in the world. How many people are ever given that chance? To have someone you love fall in love with you over and over?”

“I want him to see the flowers in my eyes and hear the songs in my hands.”

“He loved her.Jay Heaton, her best friend since childhood was in love with her. He didn’t say it but she knew that it was true.And the part that really freaked her out, the part that caught her completely off guard, is that he wasn’t alone. Because even though she’d been denying it for a long, long time, it had always been there… waiting beneath the surface of their friendship. And now that it was out there was no going back. And it was so weird to even be thinking it but…… she was in love with him too.”