I love you, Elizabeth... and more than that, I like you. I enjoy spending time with you.

God is out there watching you, even when you're away from home and that if you put your trust in God, you'll be all right in the end.

Traveling has less to do with seeing things than experiencing them.

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.

For a moment, I wondered how different my life would have been had they been my parents, but I shook the thought away. I knew my father had done the best he could, and I had no regrets about the way I'd turned out. Regrets about the journey, maybe, but not the destination. Because however it had happened, I'd somehow ended up eating shrimp in a dingy downtown shack with a girl that I already knew I'd never forget.

Libraries are places that house our dreams, our fantasies, our thirst for adventure.

You are Hannah, a lover of life, a strength to those who shared in your friendships. You are a dream, a creator of happiness, an artist who has touched a thousand souls. You've led a full life and wanted for nothing, because your needs are spiritual and you have only to look inside you. You are kind and loyal, and you are able to see the beauty where others do not. You are a teacher of wonderful lessons, a dreamer of better things.