maturity meant thinking about risk long before you pondered the reward, and that success and happiness in life were as much about avoiding mistakes as making your mark into the world.

So it's not gonna be easy. It's going to be really hard; we're gonna have to work at this everyday, but I want to do that because I want you. I want all of you, forever, everyday. You and me... everyday.

Knowing there's one thing I still haven't told you: I now believe, by the way, that miracles can happen.

He finally understood that God's presence was everywhere, at all times, and was experienced by everyone at one time or another.

And for an instant, I fantasized about wrapping my arms around her right then and there.

He felt as though he were failing in practically every area of his life. Lately, happiness seemed as distant and unattainable to him as space travel. He hadn't always felt this way. There had been a long period of time during which he remembered being very happy. But things change. People change. Change was one of the inevitable laws of nature, exacting its toll on people's lives. Mistakes are made, regrets form, and all that was left were repercussions that made something as simple as rising from the bed seem almost laborious.

What happens in the past, is in the past. But don't be surprised if it comes back and haunts you.