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Nicholas Sparks _ The Best of Me
You have to understand that I'm not the girl I used to be," she said. "I'm a wife and a mother now, and like everyone else I'm not perfect. I struggle with the choices I've made and I make mistakes, and half the time I wonder who I really am or what I'm doing or whether my life means anything at all. I'm not special at all, Dawson, and you need to know that. You have to understand that I'm just… ordinary." "You're not ordinary." Her look was pained but unflinching. "I know
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Nicholas Sparks _ The Best of Me
she was struck again by the intensity of his gaze. She wasn't used to being scrutinized this way-on the contrary, she often felt virtually invisible as she went through the well-worn circuit of her daily routines.
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Nicholas Sparks _ The Best of Me
In October 1944, we were cruising near Samar, getting ready to help lead the invasion of the Philippines. We had thirteen ships in our group, which sounds like a lot, but aside from the carrier, it was mainly destroyers and escorts, so we didn't have much firepower. And then, on the horizon, we saw what seemed like the entire Japanese fleet coming toward us. Four battleships, eight cruisers, eleven destroyers, hell-bent on sending us to the bottom of the sea.
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Nicholas Sparks _ The Best of Me
One would say something that challenged the other, often leading to an argument, and she realized how much she'd missed that. Not because they fought, but because of the trust it implied and the forgiveness that inevitably followed.
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Nicholas Sparks _ The Best of Me
Dawson dera um pontapé na terra solta. "Quando se ama uma pessoa, devemos liberta-la. Certo?". Pela primeira vez os olhos dela dardejaram. "E se essa pessoa não quiser ser libertada, vai ser obrigada na mesma? É assim que vês a situação? Como uma espécie de cliché?" Agarrara-o pelo braço, cravando-lhe os dedos. "Nós não somos um cliché. Havemos de encontrar uma solução para que possa funcionar.
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Nicholas Sparks _ The Best of Me
Há pessoas que se afastam umas das outras quando surgem adversidades. Outras, como nós, aproximam-se ainda mais.
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Nicholas Sparks _ The Best of Me
You either did something about it or you didn't, and then you lived with the choice you made. It didn't
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Nicholas Sparks _ The Best of Me
Marriages, both good and bad, were defined by repetition.
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Nicholas Sparks _ The Best of Me
She knew it was wrong. her life didn't allow for that kind of desire; society didn't condone it, either. She could try to dismiss her feelings as temporary, a by-product of other factors in her life. But she knew that wasn't true. Dawson wasn't some stranger that she happened to rendezvous with; he was he first and only true love, the most enduring of all.
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Nicholas Sparks _ The Best of Me
It takes a long time to grow an old friend, and trust is built a single moment at a time. Women, she sometimes thought, had a tendency to see what they wanted to see
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Nicholas Sparks _ The Best of Me
Too many people glorified small-town America, making it seems like a Normal Rockwell painting, but the reality was something else entirely. With the exception of doctors and lawyers or people who owned their own business, there were no high-paying jobs in Oriental, or any other small town for that matter. And while is was in many way an ideal place to raise young children, there was little for young adults to aspire to.There weren't, nor would there ever be, middle management positions in small towns, nor was there much to do on the weekends, or even new people to meet
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Nicholas Sparks _ The Best of Me
it was the us they created whenever they were together - that had made all of this both natural and inevitable. She couldn't help thinking that the story between them was somehow unfinished; that both of them were waiting to write the ending.
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