"The pieces all fit together. Yet everything..." - Quote by Nicholas Sparks

“I held her close to me with my eyes closed, wonering if anything in my life had ever been this perfect and knowing at the same time that it hadn't. I was in love, and the feeling was even more wonderful than I ever imagined it could be.”

“How had I become middle-aged while the ravages of time ignored her? I didn't know and didn't care, and before I could stop them, the words were already out. "You're beautiful," I murmured.”

“Real people had real agendas, real demands, real expectations about how other people should behave.”

“Disease increases in proportion to the increase in the number of doctors in a place.”

“Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts.”

“Instinct is like Nature herself - prodigiously conservative, and yet transcending her own historical conditions in her acts of creation.”

“Everything under heaven is in utter chaos; the situation is excellent.”

“Here is the world, sound as a nut, perfect, not the smallest piece of chaos left, never a stitch nor an end, not a mark of haste, or botching, or second thought; but the theory of the world is a thing of shreds and patches.”

“Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, the blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere the ceremony of innocence is drowned.”