Memorable Passage

“Because you aren't just someone I loved back then. You were my best friend, my best self, and I can't imagine giving that up again." He hesitated searching for the right words. "You might not understand, but I gave you the best of me, and after you left, nothing was ever the same.” 
― Nicholas Sparks, The Best of Me

This particular passage has caught attention and been engraved in my memory since the moment I read it because to me it just captures everything a relationship should be. You should be bettering yourselves together and giving each other everything you have. I just feel like this passage describes love perfectly and everything it should entail. It captures love and heartbreak in a matter of a few sentences. It is one of those passages that pulls at your heart strings and makes you think. I feel like at this time in our life, my generation, focuses on love and finding someone and finding the person you want to spend your life with, and I feel as if Nicholas Sparks captured my generation's emotions perfectly. He put into words the works of falling in love and how it can be gone in a heart beat, and he worded it so beautifully.