“Hope was other people, no matter what the philosophers said. And this was a time that needed hope.”

“...I always feel like a better person when I'm on the water. The air smelled cleaner here. The water seemed purer. She wanted to strip off her clothes and dive off the side of the boat and let the ...”

“Maybe it was simply human nature to only love a thing after losing it. Maybe they should all lose more things so they can appreciate what they had.”

“Faye keeps forgetting what she'll be giving up if she decides to stay here. Access to modern medicine, for starters. In 2015 people can survive cancer, tuberculosis, scarlet fever. Vaccines eradica...”

“It's been a long time since I felt something like hope. Don't ask me to give it up for Netflix and a Prius.”

“Youre white. Youre straight. Youre well educated, healthy and beautiful. Every time is for people like you.”

“When you find your path in life and are in sync with your primary missions in this lifetime, everything else just falls into place.”

“Discovering and fulfilling your personal destiny is lifes ultimate challenge and its greatest reward.”

“I told you. You don't love someone because of their looks or their clothes or their car. You love them because they sing a song only your heart can understand.”

“When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.”

“The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.”

“This is where it all begins. Everything starts here, today.”