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Deep in her heart, she wasn't sure she deserved to be happy, nor did she believe that she was worthy of someone who seemed...normal.

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The emotions attached to them were like sand castles in the tide, slowly washing out to sea.

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She was in a terrible marriage and she couldn't talk to anyone. He used to hit her, and in the beginning she told him that if it ever happened again, ...more

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Everyone has a past, but that's just it--it's in the past. You can learn from it, but you can't change it.

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She had known the kind of love that was worth risking everything for, the kind of love that was as rare as a glimpse of heaven.

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Marriage is a partnership, not a democracy.

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You're still alive. And that means you'll love and be loved...and in the end, nothing else really matters.

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There's a lot of magic between you too, ain't no denying that. And magic makes forgettin' hard.

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That's why I loved being with you. We could do the simplest things, like toss starfish into the ocean and share a burger and talk and even then I knew...more

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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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I've never been afraid of them. Not once. Because I had you.

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Everyone wanted to believe that endless love was possible. She'd believed in it once too, back when she was eighteen. But she knew that love was messy...more

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It was a life, she eventually concluded, that had been lived in the middle ground, where contentment and love were found in the smallest details of pe...more

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I gave you the best of me.

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Even when we were standing in the church and I was getting ready to take my vows, I can remember wishing that you were standing there, instead of him....more