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,...

Some prefer the wildness. Some the calm. There’s enough of both in the world for everyone to have their choice. And enough time for any to change their mind.

Memories are nice little possessions. As long as you don’t ignore the present when you take them out to play.

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.

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...

Damn me to hell or take me to heaven, but for Gods sake, do it now….

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.

To fate and the strange way that it twists us all together.

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

You can’t edit a blank page

Words have magic. Spells and curses. Some of them, the best of them, once said change everything.

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

Is your dog in a coma?” Quinn asked when the dog didn’t move a muscle.”No. Lump leads an active and demanding internal life that requires long periods of rest.

A woman with romance in her life lived as grandly as a queen, because her heart was treasured.

Change–savor the cool, fresh flavor of it.

Love and magic have a great deal in common. they enrich the soul, delight the heart. And they both take practice.

A marriage is a delicate thing, Maggie, a balance of two hearts and two hopes. Sometimes the weight’s just too heavy on the one side, and the other can’t lift to it.

Witches, he thought. Always rhyming.

The tune was sad, as the best of Ireland was, melancholy and lovely as a lover’s tears.

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...

Niall: We’re tossed by the winds of fate. Once we end where they blow us, we make of ourselves that we will.

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...

Men didn’t respect beauty…they used it.

Feeling too much is a hell of a lot better than feeling nothing.

People in hell want snowcones.

Why do we go to all this trouble’ Parker asked. ‘Men don’t notice anyway.”Because what we wear affects how we feel, how we act, how we move. And that they do notice. Especially the move....

That woman doesn’t have the sense God gave a retarded flea.

You know what she’s made of.””Yeah, good stock, good breeding, a hard head and a hunger to win.” She flashed him a smile as they approached the kitchen door. “I’ve been told that describes me....

Abby: “You were great. I don’t know what I’d have done without you.”Dylan: “You’d have done fine. That’s one of the most intimidating things about you.” Abby: “Intimidating? Me?”Dylan: “It isn’t easy for a man...

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.

God, I love men.” She got up from the desk, walked to him, cupped his face in her hands andgave him a smacking kiss on the mouth. “You’re just so cute.”One hard tug on her...

He wanted to be a poet,’ someone else put in while Maggie hugged Tim and patted his back. ‘Said he’d only lacked the words to be one.

Do you think, Sam, that even if it were only my own heart at risk, I could pour it into your hands again?””Then just take mine. I’m not doing anything else with it.

I can’t believe what a state I got myself into over this. Everyone was right. They said it would just happen, and it did. I guess the best things do.

Men are pigs.

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.

A bit of sniffles and men are more work than a brood of babies.

I know what it is to be pushed in a direction you don’t want to go, or one you’re not ready for. People say they know what’s best for you. Maybe sometimes it’s true. But...

Hey, handsome.

Excuse me? Tonight you represent every dateless woman in this city, every woman who’s about to sit down to a lonely meal of Weight Watchers past primavera she’s just nuked in the microwave. Every woman...

You’re going to need this,” she said, and pulled out a condom.”At some point, we’re also going to need a defibrillator and a fire extinguisher.””Promises, promises.

Take a few minutes.””No. He’s already had more of my time than he was entitled to.”Yes, he thought as she walked out of his office. Very much like her grandmother.

The wounded recognized the wounded.

David.””Nobody home but you and me,” he said, nibbling at her jaw, her throat, her mouth as he guidedher out of the kitchen. “You know what I was thinking the other day?””No.” How could she?...

it taught me, that when a woman lets herself love, she loses. it taught me that to survive, you rely on yourself first and last.” -adrianne”It should have also taught you that sometimes love has...

He gave her a quick, casual kiss on the cheek first. Then came the hug, and it was the hug that always made Laurel’s heart mush. Serious grip, cheek to the hair, eyes closed, just...

You have any complaints or comments, you direct them to me. If you call and harass Granddadagain, I’ll do whatever I can, legally, to revoke that trust fund you’ve been living off of for the...

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...

No. This would be better as a team.” She dragged her top drawer open, rooted out her aspirin. “Ishould have fired her weeks ago. You were right about that. I was wrong.””I need to write...

I’m going to treat myself to one of these as a reward for not knocking himself unconscious with a skillet.