“And in that moment, Grace understood something that she would never forget: Home wasn't just a building or an apartment with a roof and beds and chairs inside. Home was with her family, wherever they were.”

“What I hope you'll remember, Grace-is that all your life there will be people who have more than you-and people who have less. Grace hung her head. What's really important,'Miss Louise went on to say,'are the connections you have with the people you love. Your family, your friends, Grace-truly, those are the things that matter. Those are the things that will always matter the most.”

“Sometimes, she had discovered, you had to walk around the holes in your life, instead of falling into them.”

“The thing was, if you wanted to survive you had to keep going. Even when it hurt. Sometimes, she had discovered, you had to walk around the holes in your life, instead of falling into them.”

“And when he winked at her, she knew beyond a shadow of a doubt thatfrom that moment on, she would do anything for him.”

“Well,sometimes if something is really important to you, itgets stuck in your body,” he said, poking her ribs andmaking her laugh. “So even if your mind thinks that it’sgone, it’s still in there, kind of hiding inside of you, justwaiting for you to remember. It never goes away.”

“I always knew I would fall in love with you, but you were never supposed to love me back. (Michael/Del)”