"I mean talk. Never forget that God is your friend. And like all friends, He longs to hear what's been happening in your life. Good or bad, whether it's been full of sorrow or anger, and even when you're questioning why terrible things have to happen. So I talk withhim."
"I love you too, Will Blakelee," she whispered, leaning in to kiss him again."
"EVERYONE MAKES MISTAKES, EVEN THE PERSONS WE LOVE."
"It hadn't been so long ago, yet sometimes she felt that she'd been an altogether different person back then."
"People didn't change. they liked what they liked even if they didn't understand why."
"Change not only was inevitable, but usually brought its own rewards."
"That speaking the words, even if true, had little power to change the inevitable or even make him feel much better."
"There are guys who grow up thinking they'll settle down some distant time in the future, and there are guys who are ready for marriage as soon as they meet the right person. The former bore me, mainly because they're pathetic; and the latter, frankly are hard to find."
"Life…was much like a song. In the beginning there is mystery, in the end there is confirmation, but it’s in the middle where all the emotion resides to make the whole thing worthwhile."
"I don't care if your dad is the Sultan of Brunei. You happened to be born into a privileged family. What you do with that truth is completely up to you. I'm here because I want to be with you. But if I didn't, all the money in the world wouldn't have changed my feelings for you."
"I never stopped loving you, Ronnie. And I never stopped thinking about you. Even if summers do come to an end."
"God, he suddenly understood, was love in its purest form, and in these last months with his children, he had felt His touch as surely as he had heard the music spilling from Ronnie's hands."
"Emotions come and go and can't be controlled so there's no reason to worry about them. That in the end, people should be judged by their actions since in the end it was actions that defined everyone."
"The pieces all fit together. Yet everything was falling apart."
"He wanted to say that all this talk of feelings was irrelevant. Thatemotions come and go and can't be controlled, so there's no reason to worry about them. That in the end, people should be judged by their actions, since in the end, it was actions that defined everyone."
"And I'd be willing to bet that you were great at it, if only because you have to love something before you can hate it."
"I'll bet he light in the window."
"Or maybe watching you enjoy a carefree summer while you fell in love was what kept me out of the hospital in the first place."
"Yet losing him seemed unbearable. He was the one she loved, the one she would always love, and as he leaned in to kiss her, she gave herself over to him. While he held her close, she ran her hands over his shoulders and back, feeling the strength in his arms. She knew he’d wanted more in their relationship than she’d been willing to offer, but here and now, she suddenly knew she had no other choice. There was only this moment, and it was theirs."
"God's voice is usually nothing more than a whisper, and you have to listen very carefully to hear it. But other times, in those rarest of moments, the answer is obvious and rings as loud as a church bell."
"We are not perfect. We make mistakes. We screw up but then we forgive and move forward."
"The next time you're mad at me, talk to me,' he said. 'Don't shut me out. I don't like playing games. And by the way, I had a great time, too."
"The secret is to know how to lie" he used to say, " and to know when someone's lying to you". His father, Steve eventually decided, must have known how to lie."