IMPORTANT QUOTATIONS - QUOTES

The following quotations are important at various points in the story: (Warner Books, Inc., New York, New York, 1999):

1.) When I was seventeen, my life changed forever.
(pg. xi; Landon opens the book with this observation and prepares the reader for a story about profound change.)


2.) First you will smile, and then you will cry - don't say you haven't been warned.
(pg. xiii; Landon foreshadows the wonderful sadness and joy of his seventeenth year that he's about to relate.).........

 

 

............ 32.) . . . there's one thing I still haven't told you: I now believe, by the way, that miracles can happen.
(pg. 240; with this final commentary, Landon ends his story leaving us to wonder if the miracle he prayed for had actually come true.)


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