“We’d met at a carefree time, a moment full of promise, in its place now were the harsh lessons of the real world.”

“Or maybe watching you enjoy a carefree summer while you fell in love was what kept me out of the hospital in the first place.”

“America was in full swing now, all the papers said so, and people were rushing forward, leaving behind the horrors of war. She understood the reasons, but they were rushing, like Lon, toward long hours and profits, neglecting the things that brought beauty to the world.”

“There were moments when it honestly seemed as if the world were conspiring against her.”

“In another time and place, she might have felt differently, but thinking along those lines was pointless now.”

“It was a lesson that I would learn in time though it wasn't Hegbert who taught me.”

“And when her lips met mine, I knew that I could live to be a hundred and visit every country in the world, but nothing would ever compare to that single moment when I first kissed the girl of my dreams and knew that my love would last forever.”