“You're never alone when you're reading a book.”

“When you're with the person you love, you're home.”

“If you're drowning for real, and nobody believes you, then you sure as hell better figure out how to swim.”

“You always look on the dark side of life. I believe in capturing the moment...Joy is so fleeting. You never know when it might be snatched away.”

“The time for falling in love was when you were emotionally available and free of cares, when it didn’t matter what time you came home or how late you were getting up the next day. When you had hours and hours to spend gazing into each other’s eyes and even longer hours making love, uninterrupted. If you wait for the perfect time to fall in love…it’ll never happen.”

“She had always been good at dreaming, but what she had never done before was believe a dream could actually come true. She believed now. The wonder of setting sail created possibilities she had never considered before.”

“There is something about losing your mother that is permanent and inexpressable - a wound that will never quite heal.”