“I look to the right as I cross the bridge and smile to see the tip of the Eiffel Tower soaring over rooftops in the distance on the other side of the river. I've seen it in photographs a thousand times, but seeing it in person for the first time that reminds me that I'm really, truly here, thousands of miles away, across an ocean from home.”

“Some days I wake up and think, How did I get here? It's like one day, you just realize you're not young anymore, and you already made your choices, and now it's too late to change anything.”

“Not that I regretted having Annie; I'd never felt that way for a second. I just regretted that I'd never had a chance to live the life I'd thought I was supposed to.”

“Yes. There is one God, and he lives in the sky, and he hears all of us. It is just that here on earth, we are confused about how to believe in him. But what does it matter, as long as we trust he is there?”

“Ora so che il principe esiste davvero, che le persone che ami possono salvarti e che il destino potrebbe avere per tutti un piano più vasto di quanto riusciamo a capire. Ora so che le fiabe possono diventare realtà, se soltanto hai il coraggio di continuare a crederci.”

“Il cuore di una persona traspariva sempre dai dolci che cucinava, e se c'era oscurtità nella sua anima ci sarebbe stata anche nelle sue paste.”

“Life doesn't work out the way we plan, but maybe it works out the way it's supposed to after all.”