Since I was five, I've known that I was adopted, which is a politically correct term for being clueless about one's own origins.

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

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.

Anna is the only proof I have that I was born into this family. Instead of dropped off on the doorstep by some Bonnie and Clyde couple that ran off into the night. On the surface, we’re polar opposites. Under the skin, though, we’re the same: people think they know what they’re getting, and they’re always wrong. (Jesse)

And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in masquerade.

Polar north can't get away from a magnet; the magnet finds it, no matter what.

There is a fine line between seeing something that's lost as missing, and seeing it as something that might be found.