“…suddenly certain that what he was doing now was the sole reason he'd been placed on this earth. To love another. To care for someone else, to help another person, to carry her worries until she was strong enough to carry them on her own. To care for someone unconditionally, for in the end that was what gave life meaning.”

—  Nicholas Sparks

Jeremy Marsh, Chapter 20, p. 263
2000s, At First Sight (2005)

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