“The only thing a person can never have too much of is common sense.”

“Stars are so much more brilliant when they are allowed to shine.”

“His hope wasn't lost, it was buried, and somehow Prudence Ryland made that old grave seem much more shallow than it once was.”

“You do not have to see the air to know you breathe it. You do not have to see the truth to believe it and you do not have to have witnessed love to feel it.”

“I wasn't very good at the bike thing. Really, it was just dangerous to trust two skinny little wheels and spindly brakes with the considerably uncoordinated woman that is me.”

“You’ll regret crossing me!’‘Richard, I regret meeting you. I think you can safely assume that I also regret everything after that as well.” (Smith 252)”

“I once told you that all actions have a cost, we simply must decide if they are worth paying. If you do not act in the best interest of your own happiness you will regret—and pay for it—for the rest of your life.”