(no subject)
she didn't know exactly, but he did exist,
and one of the things she had learned early in life was that if you discovered something that made you tighten inside,
you better try to learn more about it.
if you simply ignored that feeling,
you would never know what might happen,
and in many ways
that was worse than finding out you were wrong in the first place
because if you were wrong,
you could go forward in your life
without ever looking back over your shoulder
and wondering what might have been
-message in a bottle,
nicholas sparks-