Nicholas Sparks - Dear John (2010)

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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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It'll be hard, but life moves fast-we'll see each other again. I know that. I can feel that. Just like I can feel how much you care for me and how much I love you

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We'd met at a carefree time, a moment full of promise, in its place now were the harsh lessons of the real world.

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And when her eyes met mine, I felt something click, like a key turning in a lock.

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But...as bad as it was, I learned something about myself. That I could go through something like that and survive. I mean, I know it could have been worse—a lot worse— but for me, it was all I could have handled at the time. And I learned from it.

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Savannah sometimes sounded a lot like the little voice that had taken up residence in my head but never bothered paying rent, and right now it whispered that if I felt guilty, maybe I was doing something wrong.

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... I finally understood what true love really meant.... that love meant that you care for another person's happiness more than your own, no matter how painful the choices you face might be.

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For a moment, I wondered how different my life would have been had they been my parents, but I shook the thought away. I knew my father had done the best he could, and I had no regrets about the way I'd turned out. Regrets about the journey, maybe, but not the destination. Because however it had happened, I'd somehow ended up eating shrimp in a dingy downtown shack with a girl that I already knew I'd never forget.

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Outside the hospital, I squinted in the harsh morning sunlight. I could hear birds chirping in the tree, but even though I searched for them, they remained hidden from me.

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It's the same thing. Passion is passion. It's the excitement between the tedious spaces, and it doesn't matter where it's directed.

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I've been burdened by questions I've asked myself a thousand times since the last time we were together. Why did I do it? And would I do it again? It was I, you see, who ended it.

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I'm not perfect, either. In the end, it's only God's judgement that matters, and I've learned enough to know that no one can presume to know the will of God.

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... I learned that it's possible to go on, no matter how impossible it seems, and that in time, the grief... lessens. It may not ever go away completely, but after a while it's not overwhelming.

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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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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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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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And all I could think was that I would like to spend every morning for the rest of my life waking up beside her

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I think my dad was happy. I phrase it like this because he seldom showed much emotion. Hugs and kisses wwere a rarity for me growing up, and when they did happen, they often struck me as lifeless, something he did because he felt he was supposed to, not because he wanted to.

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... when you're struggling with something, look at all the people around you and realize that every single person you see is struggling with something, and to them, it's just as hard as what you're going through.

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Love should bring joy, it should grant a person peace, but here and not, it was bringing only pain.

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I love you, not just for now, but for always, and I dream of the day that you'll take me in your arms again.

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When I look in the mirror, I know I'm looking at someone who isn't sure she deserves to be loved at all.

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What mattered most was knowing that love was mine to give, without strings or expectations.

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There are memories for both of us, of course, but I've learned that memories can have a physical, almost living presence, and in this, Savannah and I are different as well.If hers are stars in the nighttime sky, mine are the haunted empty spaces in beetween...

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