“Beginnings are easy, but after that, happiness takes some work.”

“We had been younger. Yup, you can grow a lot in the blink of an eye.”

“And then Luke had appeared, like a gust that had come to teach me that in life, there was nothing more precious than life itself.”

“Somewhere in between, I had fallen for that boy.”

“At least, when theres fear, theres some human part left in you. Once thats gone, though, there is nothing.”

“I forced my eyes open and saw the image thats haunted me every day for the past years of my life. And every day, in my nightmares.”

“You will be a different person after the storm, because the storm will heal you from your perfection.”

“Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it.”

“In his forty-third year William Stoner learned what others, much younger, had learned before him: that the person one loves at first is not the person one loves at last, and that love is not an end...”

“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...”

“What work a person does to earn a viable income shapes their thinking patterns, buttresses their sense of self-worth, and affects how they adapt to predictable and unpredictable obstacles.”

“You will act like the sort of person you conceive yourself to be.”

“Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.”