“I know I can't change the past, but I change the future. I can change, too. And I will.”

“Theresa, I know there's a part of you that believes you can change someone, but the reality is that you can't. You can change yourself, and Garrett can change himself, but you can't do it for him.”

“I don't know that love changes. People change. Circumstances change.”

“I know it can't be the same between us, but that doesn't change the way I felt about you then.”

“Everyone has a past, but that's just it--it's in the past. You can learn from it, but you can't change it.”

“The past is the past. You cannot change it, but you can learn from it.”

“I breathe deeply, taking in the fresh spring air. Though Beaufort has changed and I have changed, the air itself has not. It’s still the air of my childhood, the air of my seventeenth year, and when I finally exhale, I’m fifty-seven once more. But this is okay. I smile slightly, looking towards the sky, knowing there’s one thing I haven’t told you: I now believe, by the way, that miracles can happen.”