if Alex has chosen you, then I want you to believe that I have chosen you as well.
We get a lot of the sky is falling on the weather reports, so when something big does hit, people never expect it. If it’s not as bad as the reports predicted, we complain. If it’s worse than expected, we complain. If it’s just as bad as predicted, we complain about that, too, because we’ll say that the reports are wrong so often, there was no way to know they’d be right this time. It just gives people something to complain about. Safe Haven.
That he would love her no matter what she told him, and that he was the kind of man who loved her already and would love her forever. Safe Haven.
He always apologized, and sometimes he would even cry because of the bruises he’d made on her arms or legs or her back. He would say that he hated what he’d done, but in the next breath tell her she’d deserved it. That if she’d been more careful, it wouldn’t have happened. That if she’d been paying attention or hadn’t been so stupid, he wouldn’t have lost his temper. Safe Haven.
i’m not sure anyone’s life turns out exactly the way they imagine. all we can do is to try to make the best of it. even when it seems impossible."
"people will tell you most of the story, and i’ve learned that the part they neglect to tell you is often the most important part. people hide the truth because they’re afraid."
"every couple needs to argue now and then. just to prove that the relationship is strong enough to survive. long-term relationships, the ones that matter, are all about weathering the peaks and the valleys."
….and in the darkest hour, love is the only true safe haven."
"everyone has a past, but that’s just it—it’s in the past. you can learn from it, but you can’t change it."