When there’s something or someone, when there’s anything that makes you happy, you don’t let a continent or an ocean or an empty pocket keep you apart.

There's no going back from what happened. You can go back and understand the past, but you can't go back and change it.

—Dana Reinhardt in Harmless

There are days when I think I don't believe anymore. When I think I've grown too old for miracles. And that's right when another seems to happen.

—Dana Reinhardt in The Summer I Learned to Fly

Sometimes things happen. Things happen even when you don’t intend them to happen. Maybe at the beginning you had good intentions, or intentions you thought were harmless, but before you knew it things got out of your control.

—Dana Reinhardt in Harmless

Friends, I was pretty sure, lift their friends up; they don’t weigh them down like a sack full of stones.

—Dana Reinhardt in The Summer I Learned to Fly

Things seem more when you're little. They seem bigger, and distances seem farther.

—Lois Lowry in Messenger

If you wish to reach the highest, begin at the lowest.

—Publilius Syrus

I don't think you realize how hard it is to always be reaching out to you, and to continually be rebuffed.

—Sarah Dessen in What Happened to Goodbye

Wisdom is one of the few things that looks bigger the further away it is.

—Terry Pratchett