Nicholas Sparks: "Ela não conseguia pensar em mais ninguém que remotam...

"Ela não conseguia pensar em mais ninguém que remotamente se assemelhasse. Ele era complicado, quase contraditório de muitas maneiras, mas simples, uma combinação estranhamente erótica. Na superfície, ele era um menino do país, em casa da guerra, e ele provavelmente se viu nesses termos. No entanto, havia muito mais para ele. Talvez fosse a poesia que o tornou diferente, ou talvez fosse os valores que seu pai havia instilado nele, crescendo. De qualquer forma, ele parecia saborear a vida mais plenamente do que outros apareceram, e isso foi o que primeiro a atraiu para ele."

--- Nicholas Sparks

Versão em inglês

She couldn't think of anyone else who remotely resembled him. He was complicated, almost contradictory in so many ways, yet simple, a strangely erotic combination. On the surface he was a country boy, home from war, and he probably saw himself in those terms. Yet there was so much more to him. Perhaps it was the poetry that made him different, or perhaps it was the values his father had instilled in him, growing up. Either way, he seemed to savor life more fully than others appeared to, and that was what had first attracted her to him.