" 'What' and ‘if’ are two words as nonthreatening as words come, but put them together side-by side and they have the power to haunt you for the rest of your life: ‘What if?'...

I don't know how your story ended, but I know that if what you felt then was love - true love - then it's never too late. If it was true then why wouldn't it be true now? You need only the courage to follow your heart.

I don't know what a love like that feels like... a love to leave loved ones for, a love to cross oceans for... but I'd like to believe if I ever felt it, I'd have the courage to seize it. I hope you had the courage to seize it, Claire. And if you didn't, I hope one day that you will."