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.

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

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.

—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

Anyone who doesn't believe in miracles is not a realist.

—David Ben-Gurion

If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read "President Can't Swim".

—Lyndon B. Johnson

Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature.

—C. S. Lewis

There are no miracles. There are no trumpets, no fanfares, no absolutions.But she sees now that there are brief moments of, if not goodness, then kindness: a thoughtful gesture, a friendly word, an absence of anger now and again.

—Christiane Buuck

Life is such a miracle, a series of small miracles. It really is, if you learn how to look at it with the right perspective.

—James Patterson in Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas