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"No," his father replied, "you ran for you. I just hope you're running toward something, not away from something."

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More than anything, he wanted to return to the house with the same look of peace that he'd seen on Pastor Harris's face, but he trudged through the sand, he couldn't help feeling like an amateur, someone searching for God's truths like a child searching for seashells.

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Is it possible, I wonder, for a man to truly change? Or do character and habit form the immovable boundaries of our lives?

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You can't live your life for other people. You've got to do what's right for you, even if it hurts some people you love.

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It isn't easy living with an author. I know this because my wife has informed me of this fact.

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Because you aren't just someone I loved back then. You were my best friend, my best self, and I can't imagine giving that up again." He hesitated searching for the right words. "You might not understand, but I gave you the best of me, and after you left, nothing was ever the same.

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Making love, she'd always believed, was more than simply a pleasurable act between two people. It encompassed all that a couple was supposed to share: trust & commitement, hopes & dreams, a promise to make it through whatever the future might bring. The greater the love; the greater the tragedy when it is over

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His voice, even now, follows me everywhere on this longest of rides, this thing called life.

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I love you now for what we've already shared, and I love you now in anticipation of all that's to come.

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The secret is to know how to lie" he used to say, " and to know when someone's lying to you". His father, Steve eventually decided, must have known how to lie.

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Friends come and go, clothing is packed and unpacked, households are continually purged of unnecessary items, and as a result, not much sticks. it's hard at times but it makes a kid strongs in ways that most people can't understand. Teaches them that even though people are left behind, new ones will inevitably take their place; that every place has something good and bad to offer. It makes a kid grow up fast.

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Men are like that sometimes - if they meet someone and fall in love, it's real, no matter how fast it happened. But if someone falls for a woman they happen to care about, all they do is question the man's intentions.

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Parents might believe themselves to be the bosses, but in the end it was the kids who made the rules.

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A good man is hard to find," she said wistfully. "Not everyone is as lucky as you are.

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In our time together, you claimed a special place in my heart, one I'll carry with me forever and that no one can ever replace.

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You have no idea how much the last few days have meant to me," I began. "Meeting you has been the best thing that's ever happened to me.

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Do you know what you're saying when you say, "Whatever"? It's just a code word for the f-word, followed by "you." And at your age, you never, ever. say that to anyone.' " Blaze leaned back. "So now, when someone says it to me, I just say, 'You too.'

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Stories are as unique as the people who tell them, and the best stories are those in which the ending is a surprise.

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True love is rare, and it's the only thing that gives life real meaning.

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When a person sets a thing in motion, there's a feeling of unease, almost regret, until you learn the truth.

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Part of me aches at the thought of her being so close yet so untouchable, but her story and mine are different now. It wasn't easy for me to accept this simple truth, because there was a time when our stories were the same, but that was six years and two lifetimes ago.

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The memories of the day played in his mind, but this time, his thoughts were of his daughter and the way she'd clung to Katie, her little face buried in Katie's neck. The last time he'd seen that, he reflected, was when Carly had been alive.

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And when her lips met mine, I knew that I could live to be a hundred and visit every country in the world, but nothing would ever compare to that single moment when I first kissed the girl of my dreams and knew that my love would last forever.

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You are a smart man, Ira, but sometimes I think you do not understand women very well.

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I have come to realize that destiny can hurt a person as much as it can bless them, and I find myself wondering why—out of all the people in all the world I could ever have loved—I had to fall in love with someone who was taken away from me.

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I am lost without you. I am soulless, a drifter without a home, a solitary bird in a flight to nowhere. I am all these things, and I am nothing at all. This, my darling, is my life without you. I long for you to show me how to live again.

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... but what I eventually came to understand was that if a woman truly loves you, you can't always expect her to tell the truth. You see, women are more attuned to feelings than men are, and if they're not being truthful, more often than not it's because they think the truth might hurt your feelings. But it doesn't mean they don't love you.

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I knew even then how rare that kind of love is. Only the luckiest people get to experience it at all.

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No, there's no experience quite like having children, and despite the challenges we once faced, I've considered myself blessed because of the family we created.

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You're a wonderful person, Jamie. You're beautiful, you're kind, you're gentle...you're everything that I'd like to be. If people don't like you, or they think you're strange, then that's their problem.

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