I'm sorry, I guess my company leaves a lot to be desired.

"Aren't you frightened?" Somehow I expected her to say no, to say something wise like a grownup would, or to explain that we can't presume to understand the Lord's plan. She looked away. "Yes," she finally said, "I'm frightened all the time." "Then why don't you act like it?" "I do. I just do it in private." "Because you don't trust me?" "No," she said, "because I know you're frightened, too."

All he knew was that they fit somehow, and that he felt as if he spent most of his life traveling a path that led inexorably to her.

I hadn't done any of the things that I normally did with girls, yet somehow I'd fallen in love.

Everyone is always going through tough things, the irony in it is that everyone thinks what they're going through is just as hard as what you are. Life isn't about surviving this, it's about understanding this.

sometimes our future is dictated by what we are, as opposed to what we want.

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.