“I don't care how wonderful heaven is, I won't be content waiting thirty years for you.”

“With each spring comes new life, energy and green growth. In summer comes the sun, warm, kind and enduring. Fall brings its canvas of color in careful, gentle change. Winter brews into faithful strength, beauty in pure white. And then comes you. You are all that Nature offers, a blessing, a gift.. You are the fifth season.”

“What do you say when you feel your life is taken right from your chest, even though I miraculously find myself still breathing?”

“How does someone find out between lunch and dinner one day that they aren't who they thought they were?”

“He couldn't help but lose himself in Rain's eyes. They were deep vine green, so vivid; the perfect match to her peach cheeks. Malcolm had been trying to run from those eyes, but hadn't realized until now that for the last two years he'd been living in a jungle of the exact same shade.”

“Now I know why the Lord took his day off on Sunday. That must be the day he personally greets his favorites.”

“Treating everyone she met like family, and burying needless critism of others so deep beneath the soil of everyday living that only kindness ever saw the light.”