“We'll see Heaven together. I promise with all my heart I'll never leave you alone.”

“I want something good to die for. . . to make it beautiful to live.”

“Even if things aren't going the way we want right now, we will always get through it.”

“Life is a perception of the mind; all the answers are within us”

“I sigh into her and give up the fight. My fingers thread through her hair, pulling her closer, knowing I'll never get enough of her. She intoxicates me, but not in the way that leaves a man senseless. She lifts me up like a breath of sweet air, like sun on my skin, like...god.No, not god. Like the idea of god, the one I imagined when I was a boy.”

“I'll just tell you what I remember because memory is as close as I've gotten to building my own time machine.”

“I've never been one to mourn the passing of what could have been a promising relationship. When Jeff broke my heart in the ninth grade, I decided then and there that if a guy couldn't see that I was something special, I'd say good-bye with no regrets. Not that I think I'm more special than anyone else, mind you. But if a thing is not meant to be, I figure it's just not part of God's infinite plan.”