Sometimes I feel like if you just watch things, just sit still and let the world exist in front of you - sometimes I swear that just for a second time freezes and the world pauses in its tilt. Just for a second. And if you somehow found a way to live in that second, then you would live forever.
Lauren Oliver, Pandemonium

I was made and meant to look for you and wait for you and become yours forever.
Robert Browning

I held her close for only a short time, but after she was gone, I'd see her smile on the face of a perfect stranger and I knew she would be there with me all the rest of my days.
Brian Andreas, Strange Dreams: Collected Stories & Drawings

Some things don't last forever, but some things do. Like a good song, or a good book, or a good memory you can take out and unfold in your darkest times, pressing down on the corners and peering in close, hoping you still recognize the person you see there.
Sarah Dessen, This Lullaby

If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.
Thomas Aquinas

Forever Dreamin, Paul Hardcastle