“To create a community where faith matters not just in theory but in reality, faith has to be a public value, not just a private one.”

“The only thing that mattered was where I was and who I was with now, and when Will’s arms tightened around me I knew I was right where I needed to be all along.”

“Was he going to ask me to go with him? Maybe I was getting ahead of myself and he was just making conversation. Oh, why was talking to a boy so fraught with complication?”

“I've barely been able to think about anything else.''Other than...' He waited for me to finish.'Kissing you, dummy,' I said.'Really?''You shouldn't be that surprised,' I said.He grinned. 'I'm just glad to know we're on the same page.”

“It's difficult to stop trying with the one you love. You always hope that this next time might work, might change everything for the better.”

“Life was fragile and love was, too. At any moment, even our happiest ones, our world could shatter and we wouldn’t see it coming. There was only more loss ahead, showing its ugly face when we least expected it.”

“Why is it that when we lose something big, we begin to lose everything else along with it?”