“...there is no way of truly knowing one’s heart until one is put to the test.”

“We have to face difficulties to find out what our true strengths are. How we come back from failure is a very valuable test.”

“Good gracious, he was sexy—a word that had not existed in my personal vocabulary until that moment. This guy was sexy like it was his job or something.”

“The purpose of life is to find your way back to a spiritual way of thinking and living—to be able to get past the physical stuff.”

“He was smoking hot. As in H-O-T-T, hott. I’d never understood until that moment why girls insisted on adding an extra t. This guy was extra-t-worthy.”

“You could tell me anything." You could tell me everything, and I'd want to heart it,”

“Because all I could think about was you, Anna, and how good you are, and what you'd think of me. You put thoughts into my head a Neph shouldn't have!”