“Life is beautiful but no one comes out of it alive. So live each day as if its your last. Walk in the sunshine. Dance beneath the stars. Laugh hard and long and never, ever forget how very special...”

“You really are a ray of sunshine, arent you?”

“Im thinking we should test your theorysee if my voice really is all you need.”

“Do you know how many people would give anything for what you have? Not the fame or wealththe opportunity to wake up tomorrow healthy, pain free and with a future stretching out before them?”

“When youre gone and people remember you, what will they say about you? That you were happy, generous and kind? That you loved big? Or that you were the drunken singer in a rock band?”

“Look at the picture, Emma. Do you see his expression? He looks like hes been waiting his whole life to find you and suddenly there you are.”

“Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education.”

“I'm still the same guy you knew five minutes ago.”

“Silence is never an admission. We learn that in law school.”

“Only once in your life, I truly believe, you find someone who can completely turn your world around. You tell them things that youve never shared with another soul and they absorb everything you sa...”

“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”

“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there i...”

“With a secret like that, at some point the secret itself becomes irrelevant. The fact that you kept it does not.”

“Then Cassie told her story. The feeling was like gathering up everything she's ever done or felt or known up to that moment and tying it into a ball and pitching it with all her might as far away a...”

“Every woman needs secrets,' her mother said with a smile then, her eyes meeting Sally's in the rearview mirror. 'Remember that when you're old like me, pumpkin, because the world has a way of makin...”