I've learned that we're all entitled to have our secrets. - Nicholas Sparks

But he had been in love once, that he knew. Once and only once, and a long time ago. And it had changed him forever. Perfect love did that to a person and this had been perfect.

The best love is the kind that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more, that plants a fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds.

While she was exceptional, I was average, a man whose major accomplishment in life was to love her without reservation, and that would never change.