A person can't put a price on somethin' as valuable as experience an' knowledge.

"A girl can hope, can't she? Sometimes all a person has to hold on to is hope."

Hopin' and dreamin'... I been doin' it for years. But only since I came here did I dare believe som of the dreams might come true.

Good for one person might be ruination for another. The problem with our human eyes is that we can only see the right now. But God? He sees around the corner, over the hill, and clean to the horizon. He knows what's comin', an' He knows what we need to be prepared for what's comin'.

So sometimes those things we face that we don't understand - the things we think of as bad - are really for our good down the line (...)

Even when you don't understand, you still gotta trust. That's called faith, an' it'll always carry you through.

"Looks aren't everything," Tressa whispered in reply. "Looks fade, but character remains."