“Hope is something God gives us. Hope is...Hope is a bright light on a dark night. If your hope is guiding you into this shore, then this is where you should drop your anchor.”

“...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 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.”