I got this book for my birthday. It is his newest book published in September and I think this is the soonest I've gotten one of his books. I was so excited to read it, he never disappoints. I dob't know how he continues to write such good books. This book was a change up from what I have been reading. It was nice to read something a little lighter. The story is about an old man at the end of his life, reliving precious memories of the years with his wife and of another young couple just starting out on this road of life. The couples come from two different eras but soon their lives will connect in ways no one saw coming. "You kissed me, yes, but it was not just good night. Even then, I could feel the promise in it, the promise that you would kiss me just like that, forever." Isn't Nicholas a great writer? "I think that the point is that people rarely understand that nothing is ever exactly what you think it will be." That's one of the hardest things to comes to terms with in this life. We think we will be happily married or we will have well behaved children, or children at all. We think we will always be healthy or strong. Often times what we envision our lives to be is rarely what actually is. But remembering that God has plans even when things aren't what we thought they would be, even in the hardest of times, gives us hope and a rock to stand on. "For it is one thing to declare one's love for someone and quite another to accept that loving that person requires sacrificing one's dreams." We say we love but when it comes to sacrificing what we want, that's when love gets real. That's when love gets hard. "Your heart is still beautiful. Your eyes are still kind, and you are a good and honest man. This is enought to keep you beautiful forever." Doesn't matter what we look like on the outside, even the most beautiful face will age, what matters and what lasts is the beauty within. "At night, the space between us in the bed felt like the Pacific, an ocean impossible for either of us to swim across." Sometimes it feels that way, doesn't it? A chasm so wide we cannot cross or a wall so big we cannot climb it? But with God all things are possible and sometimes we just have to show up and be willing to take the first step towards the other person, even if they were in the wrong. It's sacrificing, putting away our pride-hard love. "A truth emerges in any long marriage, and the truth is this: Our spouses sometimes know us better than we even know ourselves." "I know you miss me terribly. I miss you, too. But we still have each other, for I am-and always have been-part of you. You carry me in your heart, just as I carried you in mine, and nothing will ever change that." Oh I love that. When you truly love you become a part of each other and when that person is gone a part of you is missing but they are in your heart, forever a part of you. Another great Nicholas Sparks book, another great read.
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