Planting a flower’s like opening a book, because either way you’re starting something. And your garden’s your library.

If you’re looking for the full deal, the till-death deal, then look at me. No one’s ever going to love you, stick by you, understand how you work the way I do.(Malcolm Kavanaugh)

Do you see that out there? The strange, unfamiliar light? It’s called the sun. Let’s go get us a little.

Hey, handsome.

Some people expect things to fall into their lap. Oh, they might work a bit for it. I’ll just shake this tree, and if I shake it long enough that pretty red apple will plop right into my hand. Never occurs to them that they might have to climb the damn tree, fall out a...

Es como saber que eres el centro, lo único que él ve, que solo te ve a ti. Y eso es tan tierno y excitante… es terrorífico, increíble. Es saber que sólo existe una persona que sólo te ve a ti. Y que cuando te toca, no existe nadie más para él.

Creative is my god. Technology my cherished lover.

There’s no reward without work, no victory without effort, no battle won without risk.

Anyone who said money didn’t matter had never had to count the coins that fell between the cushions of the couch.

Fictional people are people, too, otherwise why would we care what happens to them?

What’s she crying for now?” Theo wanted to know as Pilar clung to his father and sobbed.”Women wait until it’s over before they cry, especially when it’s important.” Maddy studied theway her father turned his face into Pilar’s hair. “This is important

All he’d learned was that love was a jewel with too many facets to count. Strength and weakness running side by side through it. And that no one could give or take it with any less than an open hand.

I was into third guesses with Theo and Maddy. Anyway, that’s one of the reasons I opted to buythe van and drive cross-country instead of dumping us all in a plane. It gave us some time. Nothinglike a three-thousand-mile drive in an enclosed vehicle to cement a family unit—if you live throughit.””It was very brave...

Be yourself. Be true to that, to your heart. Patience. See what happens if you step back instead of bounding forward.

Roz to Amelia (the house ghost): How considerate of you, after trying to kill me, to see that I don’t catch a cold.

…she lost twenty minutes sitting on the floor with her arms wrapped around her knees, smiling into the pretty glow and imagining herself a contented farmer’s wife waiting for her man to come in from the fields.

I don’t need you by my side. But I want you there. Very much want you there. That, I think, saysmore. Means more.”He took the hand she held out to him. “We’ll go down. James should be here soon

I can fix a bad page. I can’t fix a blank page.

The wounded recognized the wounded.

And yet, anything real, anything strong, was never easy. She’d been taught from an early age that the things that mattered most were the hardest to obtain.

Love spells are nothing but wives’ tales. You can’t play magic inside the heart, for it’s more powerful than any spell. Lust you can order up with a wink, desire with a smile. But love is love, and there is nothing can touch it.

I’d have given you everything I had. If you’d needed more, I’d have found it, and given you that. It’s the way I love. It’s the only way I know how.

Change–savor the cool, fresh flavor of it.

Love, even when pledged, isn’t enough.

If you don’t tell her just that, if you don’t give her your heart, Aidan, if you don’t bare it for her and give her the time to trust what she sees there, you’ll never have her.

Who I am now is who I was before. The three years between, they were the aberration. You wouldn’t recognize the person I became during that lost time. I barely do.

Survivors lived with their mistakes.

When you swallow that pride, Eve, take care you don’t choke on it.

People in hell want snowcones.

She walked with a ghost of herself, one full of potential and possibility. One who was fearless. Where had that girl gone?

When we destroy it.” She spoke clearly now, steadily now. “If it comes in a form with a dick, I will personally castrate it”.

Good fiction creates its own reality.

For a while. Minus the singing.

love wasn’t the soft, silky words the poets spoke of. Love,with it’s twin edges, was the one factor that weakened so many women, that pushed them to compromised their own wants, their own needs for the needs and wants of another.

And each book has to receive your best effort every single time. No slacking.

know what you want, work to get it, then value it once you have it.

Do you know how many ways love can hit you? So it makes you happy, or miserable? It makes you sick in the belly or hurt in the heart. It makes everything brighter and sharper, or it blurs all the edges. It makes you feel like a king or a fool. Every way love can...

Happily ever after?” “If justice doesn’t triumph and love doesn’t make the circle in entertainment fiction, what’s the point? Real life sucks too often.

You can fix anything but a blank page.

I’ve always loved you. I cut my own heart out when I sent you away.

She was tough in the best sense of the word. She’d taken blows, the disappointments, and had worked her way through them. Some people, he knew, would have buckled under, found a clutch, or given up. But she had carved a place for herself and made it work.

I admire independence. The world would be a stronger place if we were all capable of handling life on our own. But being capable of it doesn’t mean being unable to share and depend on someone else. It shouldn’t mean being unwilling to. That’s the romance.

You love tests?””Well, yeah. There are questions and answers. True or false, multiple choice, essay. What’s not to love?

Men are pigs.

Jake eyed his brother. “I never forget. All data is stored in my memory banks. And one day, candy pig, you will pay.””You ‘re such a geek.””Thesbo.””That’s Jack’s latest insult.”Seth gestured with his wine-glass. “A play on thespian, since Kev’s into that.””Rhymes with lesbo,” Jake explained helpfully while Anna stifled a groan. “It’s a slick...

Bright light. You’ve always found your way.

Anyone that has character leaves a mark on another. Would you like to leave the world without making a ripple?

Fate. You could never anticipate it.

Evil cannot and will not be vanquished by evil. Dark will only swallow dark and deepen. The good and the light are the keenest weapons.

Shannon: Only the living suffered. Only they were riddled with guilt and regret and unanswered questions.