Are you seeing anyone romantically?" he inquired. "No, I'm not," she replied. "Good. Please keep it that way. Because I intend to ask you to marry me.

You're not a wave, you're a part of the ocean.

If we knew what comes next, we never would have worried.

No, Edward. You are here so I can teach you something. All the people you meet here have one thing to teach you.

It is far more comforting to think God listened and said no, than to think that nobody’s out there.

Have you ever really had a teacher? One who saw you as a raw but precious thing, a jewel that, with wisdom, could be polished to a proud shine?

Whenever you have two characters in a book, whether it's a novel or nonfiction, you run the risk that the reader is going to like one more than the other. They're going to read one chapter and say, 'I can't wait to get back to the other guy.