“Love's scary, and sometimes it's transient. But it's worth the risks and the nerves. It's even worth the pain.”

“Sometimes people say I think too much. Maybe it's true. If it is, it's because I feel too much.”

“Anything worth anything can be found in books.”

“Laurel: I don't need a ring or a license, or a spetacular white dress. It's not marriage so much, or at all really, that matters. It's the promise. It's the knowing someone wants me to be part of his life. Someone loves me, that I'm the one for him. That's not just enough, it's everything.”

“Magic is. But its power is nothing beside love.--Prince Carrick”

“It might be fun.""Love's supposed to be." Laura smiled. "When it's not hell.”

“Heroism's just doing more than you want to do or think you can. Sometimes it's just doing the crappy things, the unhappy things other people won't do....It's not just jumping out of a plane onto a glacier ten thousand feet up because there's nobody else there to do it. It's getting out of bed in the morning when it seems like too much trouble.”