...but what I eventually came to understand was that if a woman truly loves you, you can't always expect her to tell the truth. You see, women are mo… - Nicholas Sparks

Women are more attuned to feelings than men are, and if they’re not being truthful, more often than not it’s because they think truth might hurt your feelings. But it doesn’t mean they don’t love you.

Because being comfortable meant she might lower her guard, and she could not let that happen.

If you discovered something that made you tighten inside, you had better try to learn more about it.

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 upon those we love, it's often much more difficult to heal them. Yet the process of healing those wounds provided the richest experience of my life, leading me to believe that while I've often overestimated what I could accomplish in a day, I had underestimated what I could do in a year. But most of all, I learned that it's possible for two people to fall in love all over again, even when there's been a lifetime of disappointment between them.