"Our story has three parts: a beginning, a middle, and an end. And although this is the way all stories unfold, I still can’t believe that ours didn’t go on forever."
— Nicholas Sparks (Dear John)

So I finished the book. It seems John is quite the character, the type you only read about in books, the total self-sacrificing reformed rake. Disclaimer: I haven’t seen the movie, which I was told had a better ending. Hey, life doesn’t always have happy endings, they should not have ended up together – because honestly, I think Savannah was really weak. But then what they really had was pure teenage love (and it comes quick like allergy relief and sadly disappears as quickly too).

I might be writing in Greek here, for those who haven’t read the book. It’s an easy light read, it gave my heart a little hurting thump, but that is the die-hard romantic in me.

"I finally understood what true love meant…love meant that you care for another person’s happiness more than your own, no matter how painful the choices you face might be."
— Nicholas Sparks (Dear John)

"It’s possible to go on, no matter how impossible it seems, and that in time, the grief . . . lessens. It may not go away completely, but after a while it’s not so overwhelming."
— Nicholas Sparks (Dear John)

"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."
— Nicholas Sparks (Dear John)