To think, after all this time, after all the searching and all the waiting, after all the regret and the time she'd spent away, she came back to find that happiness was right where she's left it. On a football field in Mullaby, North Carolina. Waiting for her.

You can't change where you come from, but you can change where you go from here. Just like a book. If you don't like the ending, you make up a new one.

Crystalline swirls of sugar and flour still lingered in the air like kite tails.

Life is about experience... You can't hold on to everything

To this day she could make tap water boil just by kissing him.

He was the only person in the world she was tongue-tied around, and yet the only person she really wanted to talk to.

I think of the future all the time. All my life I've chased dreams of what could be. For the first time in my life, I've actually caught one. I'll give you one day at a time, Claire. But remember, I'm thousands of days ahead already.