The only difference between a wish and a prayer is that you're at the mercy of the universe for the first, and you've got some help with the second.

When someone loves you up one side and down the other like that, you make every effort to stick around.

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.

Love makes life a little brighter

I used to believe everything my brother told me, because he was older and I figured he knew more about the world. But as it turns out, being a grown-up doesn’t mean you’re fearless. It just means you fear different things.

Just because you didn't put a name to something did not mean it wasn't there.

There was a difference between people looking at you because they wanted to be like you, and people looking at you because your misfortune brought them one rung higher.