“All things are possible.”

“I told myself it was the snow—she couldn’t possibly get to Philadelphia on the roads. I told myself a hundred lies. Children do that. It’s amazing the sorts of things you’ll make yourself believe.”

“Tell my brother to remember his heart in all things. That is where his honor and his destiny will be found. Tell him.”

“Absence is a curious thing. When friends are absent, they seem to loom ever larger, till the lack of them is all one can feel.”

“I want to ask him if it’s possible that a girl can be born unlovable, or does she just become that way?”

“It is funny how you do not miss affection until it is given, but once it is, it can never be enough; you would drown in it if possible.”

“It's possible to pretend I'm someone other than who I am, and if I pretend long enough, I can believe it.”