Gossip is one thing, hurtful gossip is completely another, and even in high school we weren't THAT mean.

Love, after all, always said more about those who felt it than it did about the ones they loved.

She would tell him what she wanted in her life--her hopes and dreams for the future--and he would listen intently and then promise to make it all come true. And the way he said it made her believe him, and she knew how much he meant to her.

I have faith that God will show you the answer. But you have to understand that sometimes it takes a while to be able to recognize what God wants you to do. That's how it often is. God's voice is usually nothing more than a whisper, and you have to listen very carefully to hear it. But other times, in those rarest of moments, the answer is obvious and rings as loud as a church bell.

There is nothing like love. You should try it.” Thibault shrugged. “Maybe one day.

It hadn't been so long ago, yet sometimes she felt that she'd been an altogether different person back then.

I don't want to live the rest of my life thinking about you and dreaming of what might have been. Stay with me, Allie.