“What made Olive the saddest about the Gardners was that everyone wanted to be enshrined in someones memory. It was the only way of living on after death, really: in the minds of loved ones. Memorie...”

“It was a lesson she was still learning. When she had first started nursing, she had taken every death personally, like she was losing her father all over again. Every patient lost under her care wa...”

“[A dog is] a bundle of pure love, gift-wrapped in fur.”

“Its easy to point out someone elses mistake, harder to recognize your own. Especially because most peopleexcept the lucky few like ourselvesare forced to live with their mistakes. So they learn to ...”

“Ah, selfish. Theres that word again. Sherry smirked. Its been hurled at me many a time, because being a mother and wife is all about selflessness, see? She imitated a perky, syrupy-sweet voice. Giv...”

“It’s easy to point out someone else’s mistake, harder to recognize your own. Especially because most people—except the lucky few like ourselves—are forced to live with their mistakes. So they learn...”

“What's meant to be will always find a way”

“Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together,but do so with all your heart.”

“Maybe there isnt such a thing as fate. Maybe its just the opportunities were given, and what we do with them. Im beginning to think that maybe great, epic romances dont just happen. We have to make...”

“Only once in your life, I truly believe, you find someone who can completely turn your world around. You tell them things that youve never shared with another soul and they absorb everything you sa...”

“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”

“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there i...”