There are two mistakes people make when it comes to marriage. The first mistake is marrying the wrong person. Once you are married to the right person, the second mistake is denying any part of yourself or your love to him. When you give your husband your unconditional love, he then has it to return to you.
"Now, who do you wish to marry?" "Who do you think I wish to marry, blue eyes?" "I don't know, but I hope she is very special, because you are." "She's special. So special that I even thought about her when I was away at school during the winters. In fact, I'm glad to be home so I can see her more often." "She sounds quite nice." "I'd say she's closer to wonderful than quite nice. She's sweet and spirited, beautiful and unaffected, gentle and stubborn. Everyone who knows her comes to love her." "Well then, for heaven's sake, why don't you marry her and have done with it!" "Because, she's still too young. You see, her father wants her to wait until she's eighteen, so she'll know her own mind." "Do you mean me?" "You. Only you.
Love, I've come to understand, is more than three words mumbled before bedtime. Love is sustained by action, a pattern of devotion in the things we do for each other everyday.
No one expected a first year engineering student to build the perfect bridge.
Just because life is hard, and always ends in a bad way, doesn't mean that all stories have to, even if that's what they tell us in school and in the New York Times Book Review. In fact, it's a good thing that stories are as different as we are, one from another.
Told in alternating chapters, teeming with music references, humor, angst, and endearing side characters, this is a love story you’ll wish were your very own. Working together for the first time, Rachel Cohn and David Levithan have combined forces to create a book that is sure to grab readers of all ages and never let them go.
"You've built up this idea about me, this ideal, but I'm not that person. I'm not perfect. I am far from perfect. I'm not worth such a beautiful story." "Lola. You are the story." "But a story is just that. It isn't the truth." "I know you aren't perfect. But it's a person's imperfections that make them perfect for someone else
Long-term relationship - the ones that matter - are all about weathering the peaks and the valleys.
Life sometimes gets so bogged down in the details, you forget you are living it.
'I’ve left some clues for you. If you want them, turn the page. If you don’t, put the book back on the shelf, please.'
