That's what courage is. If she weren't scared, she wouldn't need courage in the first place." -Jo

Everyone has a past, but that's just it--it's in the past. You can learn from it, but you can't change it.

The emotions attached to them were like sand castles in the tide, slowly washing out to sea.

...nothing wonderful lasted forever. Joy was as fleeting as a shooting star that crossed the evening sky, ready to blink out at any moment.

That's the thing about life. A lot of the time, it isn't easy at all. We just have to try to make the best of it.

I've come to believe that in everyone's life, there's one undeniable moment of change, a set of circumstances that suddenly alters everything.

She wasnt exactly sure when it happened. Or even when it started. All she knew for sure was that right here and now, she was falling hard and she could only pray that he was feeling the same way.

Love doesn't mean anything if you're not willing to make a commitment, and you have to think not only about what you want, but about what he wants. Not just now, but in the future.

Deep in her heart, she wasn't sure she deserved to be happy, nor did she believe that she was worthy of someone who seemed...normal.

He thought of her often, and he missed the companionship they'd once shared and the friendship that had been the bedrock of their marriage at its best.

It was inevitable, of course, but somehow it didn't seem right to Alex that they would never remember the sound of Carly's laughter, or know how deeply she'd once loved them.

Well-being is attained little by little, and nevertheless is no little thing itself.

It is not the soul that speaks its mind, but the mind that speaks its soul, that will be heard.

They believe the bible is the exact word of God - Then they change the bible! Pretty presumptuous, hu huh? "I think what God meant to say..."

The joke in aviation is, 'If you want to make a million, you'd better start with £10m.'

My belief that the publishing industry is run by prigs and cowards dates back to many years before I even had the idea for the book.

We can in fact first place the beam of rays of moving positive atomic ions in a plane perpendicular to the axis in which we see the spectral lines emitted by them.

My experience in government is that when things are non-controversial and beautifully coordinated, there is not much going on.

There is no limitation other than what you think.

The one who is filled by virtue is like a newborn baby.

I think that what drives most of us as human beings is the want for something. You might have a hope, or a big dream, or a goal that you haven't yet achieved.