“I knew I seemed a fairly unlikely candidate for an adventure into the unknown. And secretly I doubted that I had what it took, whatever it took, to head off alone to a country most people had never heard of. In light of this, my determination to go puzzled me.”

“I wanted to throw myself into an experience that was too big for me and learn in a way that cost me something”

“Anyone can live anywhere. You think you can't in the beginning, but then you do.”

“I thought I had my life mapped out, thought I had it together. Then you came along and flipped my world on its head. You make me want things I never knew I needed.”

“When we met, something inside both of us had changed, and whatever that was, it made us need each other. For reasons unknown to me, I was his exception, and as much as I had tried to fight my feelings, he was mine.”

“But I knew that it wasn't fair to either of us to hold on just when he had let go. - Abby Abernathy”

“For reasons unknown to me, I was his exception, and as much as I had tried to fight my feelings, he was mine.”