The Best Thing I Ever Did Novels & Stories

"I shoulda taken you with me after your ma died. Shoulda raised you to be the kind of boy you were meant to be. Not hanging around in a place like this, lordin' over everyone else that you're the high and mighty doctor. Taking people's lives in your hands and actin' like you're better than everyone else. Just like them. They raised you to be them. Shoulda taken you. Best thing in the world." "The best thing you ever did in your miserable life was to leave me with Gram and Pop." I had never doubted the veracity of those words, but now, they rang even truer. "For all the heartache you gave them, letting us have each other was the kindest, most generous move you ever made, and you didn't even d

I sighed, and started to speak, "I don't care how you've ever felt about me. It's nice to hear your confession. At least, I'm not being greedy anymore by forcing you to stay with me, even though it was unknowingly. I didn't know you didn't like me and you were only in a bondage." "You're right." He affirmed what I said. "Drake," I continued. "My opinion about you was different. So, before I'll let you go forever, I want you to know that you were the best thing that ever happened to me. You were the only one that comforted me when no one was around. You were the only thing I appreciated in my entire life. You were the best." I swallowed the lump in my throat. "You were a gift, a blessing, my

"They just know they’re healthy." "That’s the greatest victory of all, Jade," Caspian replied, pulling her close. "You gave them a future without demanding to be the center of it. You did what Julian never could. You gave power away." Jade looked at the letters and then at the sunset over the lagoon. She realized that the "50,000 words" of her story weren't just the ones written in a book or a contract. They were the lives that would continue long after she was gone. She wasn't a vessel. She wasn't a fluke. She was a woman who had finally decided that her own happiness was the highest form of genius.

I also thought nobody would love me for me, but Nicole proved me wrong. She's the best thing that has ever happened to me. And I can proudly say that she is my obsession.

I continued, my voice a little softer, a little more sincere, "that this has been one of the best nights of my life. And that's saying a lot, because I'm a walking disaster and most of my nights are terrible." A chuckle from Grandpa Roman. "But tonight? Tonight is different." I swallowed hard, glancing at my grandfather, that familiar ache climbing up my throat. "This man right here," I said to them, my voice shaking a little, "is the best thing that ever happened to me. He's—he's family. He's my everything. And yeah, he forgets me sometimes. But that doesn't change the fact that I love him more than anything in this world." The room had gone quiet.

You were the most beautfiul thing I'd ever felt. And I was convinced you'd remain the most beautiful thing I'd ever feel. Do you know how limiting that is, to think at such a ripe young age, I'd experienced the most exhilarating person I'd ever meet. And I'd spend the rest of my life just settling to think I'd tasted the most natural rawest form of sugar and everything else would be refined and synthetic. That nothing beyond this moment would add up. That all the years beyond me could not combine themselves to be sweeter than you.

The best kind of thing. Always the best kind of thing.

This could be the best thing that’s ever happened to him. Scrap that: I’m going to make sure it’s the best thing that’s ever happened to him. I’m going to make sure that my single friend isn’t single for very much longer.

Not that I do not want to, but simply because they do not just deserve to know. Of all the things I have ever done in my entire life, redemption has become one of my greatest achievements I will forever be proud of and grateful for. A pat on the back would be nice, but a yank on the heart will always be the best.

I bit my lower lip as I was trying to calm down my thunderous heart. "Snow, you're the best thing that ever happened to me." He glanced at me. "Maybe we met at the wrong time or wrong moment but it wouldn't change the fact that you're the best thing that ever happened to me, so don't ever think that you don't deserve what I'm giving to you, okay? I'm in love with you and I'm going to do anything for you, remember that."