“Hardships drive some people apart. Others, like us, grow even closer.”

“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.”

“Throughout it all, I loved her as much as I always had, and I found myself aching for those simpler times of the past. I knew what was happening, of course. As we were drifting apart, I was becoming more desperate to save what we once had shared; like a vicious circle, however, my desperation made us drift apart even further.”

“Everyone makes mistakes, even if some are worse than others. Accidents happen.”

“And if, in some distant place in the future, we see each other in our new lives, I will smile at you with joy, and remember how we spent a summer beneath the trees, learning from each other and growing in love.”

“People didn't change. they liked what they liked even if they didn't understand why.”

“Believe it or not, that was the first time I recognized that in some ways she was just like the rest of us.”