“sunshine is just beyond the clouds" Carl Joesph Gunner”

“The next time that boy pursues you, he better do it like a dying man looking for water in a desert. When it's the right guy, you'll know, because he'll cherish you.”

“The truth was this: Love is a decision.”

“A verse came to mind, one that has comforted Kari before. It was the shortest verse in the Bible: Jesus wept. If he cried over Jerusalem, if he cried over the death of Lazarus, surely he was crying now over the death of her dreams, the death of her marriage.”

“My parents used to say faith wasn't something you could pretend about. It wasn't real unless it looked like faith and acted like faith.”

“Real love never fails.”

“Because love was a light that wouldn't allow darkness to reign in his soul.”