* Bethany giving away her surfboards because she no longer has it in her to continue surfing.
* Her mother's prayers while racing to the hospital. "Please don't take her! ''Please'' don't take her!" (Actually, pretty much all of her mother's reaction to Bethany's injury.)
** Her father is perhaps even worse; he'd just been anesthetized for a knee operation when the call comes in and is unable to walk, but still drags himself down the hall after her.
* While helping in Thailand following the devastating 2004 Tsunami, a local woman sobs uncontrollably to Bethany and the support group that she lost her entire family and her friends in the disaster. Bethany is really hit hard by this, realizing that she was lucky that her family didn't have to go through this level of grief. It's almost as if she feels ashamed that she survived, while this woman lost everything.