Real people had real agendas, real demands, real expectations about how other people should behave.

That’s the thing about life, he knew. There was always a but.

i'm sorry she never got her miracle. she did get her miracle, Landon, her miracle was you.

Love can sometimes achieve the impossible

The secret is to know how to lie" he used to say, " and to know when someone's lying to you". His father, Steve eventually decided, must have known how to lie.

And if you think that you're showing your love to Catherine by suffering the way you've been doing, then somewhere along the way, I must have messed up in raising you." "You didn't mess up...." "I must have. Because when I look at you, I see myself, and to be honest, I'd rather see someone different. I'd like to see someone who learned that it's okay to go on, that it's okay to find someone that can make you happy. But right now, it's like I'm looking in the mirror and seeing myself twenty years ago.

Proximity bred familiarity, and familiarity bred comfort.