If Alex has chosen you, then I want you to believe that I have chosen you as well.

Love should bring joy, it should grant a person peace, but here and not, it was bringing only pain.

A moment later, he plopped down on the sand beside her, and when they accidentally touched, Gabby had the briefest flash of them sitting together just like this on a hundred different weekends in the future.

No buts," he said, "because there are none. You see yourself as someone who couldn't get away. I see the courageous woman who escaped. You see yourself as someone who should be ashamed or guilty because she let it happen. I see a kind, beautiful woman who should feel proud because she stopped it from happening ever again. Not many women have the strength to do what you did.

You know...it's a hard age. Kids are in that stage where they're beginning to understand the world of adults, without having the maturity of adults to deal with everything going on around them.

The search for God's presence was much of a mystery as God himself, and what was God if not a mystery?

How can I tell them that I love them if I'm no longer there?