“What you did when you were young could kill you. It just might take years to do it.”

“Here’s the deal,” she continued. “You might get hurt. You might be married fifty years. No one knows what the outcome is when they take a chance with someone, but the worst thing you can do is take a chance with the wrong man. That is a mistake you’ll never forgive yourself for when you finally realize it.”

“Why did you take me down this road if you don't want to walk with me? Why do you exist all alone, when you could just talk to me?”

“Having clear goals is a way of shaping your future. Where you are today, is partly a result of what you did or didn’t do in the past. Where you might be in five years time, will be as a consequence of what you do or don’t do over the next five years.”

“What did I really think fifteen years ago? A nonbeliever, I felt guilty in the midst of all those believers. And since it seemed to me that they were in the right, I decided to believe, as you might decide to take an aspirin: It can't hurt and you might get better.”

“How do you walk into someone's life again after twenty-eight years? How do you pick up, when you were too young to know where you left off.”