14 quotes found
“Gifts of the heart can't be claimed by anyone except the giver.”
“Frugality, I've learned, has its own cost, one that sometimes lasts forever.”
“I came to the conclusion that unrealized hopes, even small ones, were always wrenching.”
“Experience had taught me that even the most precious memories fade with the passage of time.”
“Yet I have come to believe that while the past is unchangeable, our perceptions of is are malleable...”
“Marriage is about compromise; it's about doing something for the other person, even when you don't want to.”
“Yes, I decided, a man can truly change. The events of the past year have taught me much about myself, and a few universal truths. I learned, for instance, that while wounds can be inflicted easily ...”
“I guess what I'm trying to say is that you are there, in everything I am, in everything I've ever done, and looking back, I know that I should have told you know much you've always meant to me. ”
“But love, Ive 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 every day.”
“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 f...”
“in all the years we spend together, I never once regretted the fact that I had chosen her and that she had chosen me as well.”
“What it's like to be a parent: It's one of the hardest things you'll ever do but in exchange it teaches you the meaning of unconditional love.”
“It's funny, but have you ever noticed that the more special something is, the more people seem to take it for granted? It's like they think it won't ever change. Just like this house here. All it e...”
“I understand women" ... There's no man alive who can honestly say those words and mean them. It just isn't possible, so there's no use trying. But that doesn't mean you can't love them anyway. And ...”
