From "The Wedding" by Nicholas Sparks

In the past, words had always failed me at times like this.
Perhaps I'd secretly feared that speaking my feelings aloud
would somehow diminished them.
Yet now I realized how wrong I'd been to withhold my thoughts,
and bringing my lips to her ear,
I whispered the words that i should have never kept inside:
"I love you, and I'm the luckiest man in the world to have you."

"It's funny, but have you ever noticed
that the more special something is,
the more people seem to take it for granted?
It's like they think it won't ever change."

"How many people are ever given that chance?
To have someone you love fall in love with you over and over."