I believe that having something to hope for - even if it's just a better tomorrow- is the most powerful drug on this planet.

Anger, though, is too fierce a flame to last for long, and when it burned out, I was left numb and wondering.

When you showed someone how you felt, it was fesh and honest. Whe you told someone how you felt, there might be nothing behind the words but habit or expectation.

Three months ago, if you asked me, I would have told you that if you really loved someone, you’d let them go. But now I look at you, and I dreamed about Maggie, and I see that I’ve been wrong. If you really love someone, Allie, I think you have to take them back.

People changed. Even the people you thought you knew as well as you knew yourself.

Shooting stars are not stars at all. They re just rocks that enter the atmosphere and catch fire under friction. What we wish on when we see one is only a trail of debris.

She understood what it was like to stand right in front of people you loved, even though they could not see you.