Silence is pure and holy. It draws people together because only those who are comfortable with each other can sit without speaking. - Nicholas Sparks

These days, it seemed that the only thing he was certain about was the knowledge that he wouldn't trade his years with Gabby for anything. Without her, his life had little meaning. He was a small-town husband with a small-town occupation and his cares were no different from anyone else's. He'd been neither a leader nor a follower, nor had he been someone who would be remembered long after he passed away. He was the most ordinary of men with only one exception: He'd fallen in love with a woman named Gabby, his love deepening in the years they'd been married. But fate had conspired to ruin all that, and now he spent long periods of his days wondering whether it was humanly possible to fix things between them.

I gave you the best of me, he'd told her once, and with every beat of her son's heart, she knew he'd exactly done that.

You always have a choice. It's just that some people make the wrong one.