“You've a good heart. Sometimes that's enough to see you safe wherever you go. But mostly, it's not.”

“The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.”

“He inclined his head at my dress. "What's the occasion?" "Homecoming," I said, twirling. "Like?" "Last I heard, Homecoming requires a date." "About that," I hedged. "I'm sort of...going with Scott. We both figure a high-school dance is the last place Hank will be patrolling." Patch smiled, but it was tight. "I take that back. If Hank wants to shoot Scott, he has my blessing.”

“Sometimes a hypocrite is nothing more than a man in the process of changing.”

“It's a lot easier to be lost than found. It's the reason we're always searching and rarely discovered--so many locks not enough keys.”

“Parents were the only ones obligated to love you; from the rest of the world you had to earn it.”

“Every true love and friendship is a story of unexpected transformation. If we are the same person before and after we loved, that means we haven't loved enough.”

“Years fly by, but the heart stays in the same place.”