“I'm going to need chocolate. Lots and lots of chocolate. Since tomorrow is my free night, I figure I will swing by Teresa's and visit, and as I recall, she always loved chocolate too. So tonight? I'm going to do a final test of my triple-chocolate chewies, dark chocolate cookies with white and milk chocolate chips, one of the recipes I'm thinking of including in the proposal, and I just want to make them one more time to be sure they are perfect.”

“Maybe what matters is not so much the path as who walks beside you.”

“I want you, exactly the way you are today, the way you'll be tomorrow, and fifty years from now. And I want you to want me enough to deal with whatever happens. I can't promise you'll be okay. But without you I will never be okay. And I know that without me you will never be okay either.”

“Courage wasn't only fighting your circumstances; sometimes making peace with your circumstances required more courage.”

“It wasn't like he wasn't capable of happiness. It was almost as if he held himself away from it just the slightest bit. He felt undeserving of it, mistrustful of it, and the unfairness of that made her want to shake some sense into his stubborn head.”

“Disappointment is the end of an illusion.”

“I forever you,” he whispers, kissing the tip of my nose, and I think my heart might fly out of my chest.”

“We have seen countless sunrises, but their beauty never ceases to amaze us.”