“There are many more layers to innocence than one might ever imagine, and we are ever unaware of them until each barrier is breached.”

“No one had ever told them they might need each other one day, an for some reason, they hadn't figured it out themselves.”

“There can be as many wrong reasons to do the right thing as there are stars in the sky. There might even be more than one legitimate right reason. But there is never a right reason to do the wrong thing. Not ever.”

“Children lose their innocence piece by piece. The layers are carved away until our hearts have been exposed and polished into an unnatural gloss. We spend the rest of our lives trying to remember why we ever loved so passionately and how we dreamed so simply, before life chiseled us down to the core.”

“The mean things of this world had only one lesson-we are meaner than you'd ever imagine.”

“God's ways are higher than our ways not because he is less compassionate than we are but because he is more compassionate than we can ever imagine.”