Knowing there's one thing I still haven't told you: I now believe, by the way, that miracles can happen.

I tend to avoid melodrama. I try to create very realistic settings and very realistic experiences and realistic responses to these experiences. Melodrama is the use of really big events that may or may not happen in real life - certainly they do, but they're not events that are common to most people. Most of the things that happen in my novels are things that could happen to people in real life.

Relationships are the most important thing in life, and friends are a part of that.

It took strength to hold on to inner passion, and Noah had done that.

Love is always patient and kind. It is never jealous.Love is never boastful or conceited. It is never rude or selfish. It does not take offense and is not resentful.

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.

It was inevitable for people to try to create a sense of normalcy in a place where nothing was normal. It helped one get through the day, to add predictability to a life that was inherently unpredictable.