Noah Calhoun watched the fading sun sink lower from the wrap around porch of his plantation-style home.He liked to sit here in the evenings, especially after working hard all day.

That a day spent with dreaming and sunsets and refreshing breezes cannot be bettered.

Love is like the wind, you can't see it but you can feel it.

I fell in love with her when we were together, then fell deeper in love with her in the years we were apart.

You are, and always have been, my dream.

In the blink of an eye, something happens by chance - when you least expect it - sets you on a course that you never planned, into a future you never imagined.

I want you to be.... happy.

I mean, if the relationship can't survive the long term, why on earth would it be worth my time and energy for the short term?

The scariest thing about distance is that you don’t know whether they’ll miss you or forget you.

You can't live your life for other people. You've got to do what's right for you, even if it hurts some people you love.

Writing the last page of the first draft is the most enjoyable moment in writing. It's one of the most enjoyable moments in life, period.

It's easy to loveBut hard to forgive

From my Facebook Page: "You spend the first 50 years acquiring and the second 50 years getting rid of

Men are not influenced by things but by their thoughts about things.

Give a man a clear-cut job and let him do it.

If you ever feel so happy you land in jail, I'm your bail.

We are in effect enculturating kids from the very beginning to see women and girls as not taking up half of the space.

My left brain is doing the best job it can with the information it has to work with. I need to remember, however, that there are enormous gaps between what I know and what I think I know.

You may be sure, dear Crito, that inaccurate language is not only in itself a mistake: it implants evil in men's souls.

If people like what I do, fine. If they don't, fine.