“There are only two reasons why you leave someone you're still in love with - either it's the right thing to do, or it's the only thing to do.”

“You have always been my only muse. I cannot paint or sculpt. I have only my words to render your likeness. Sometimes I wish I were both God and Adam so I could tear out my rib and create you from m...”

“Hurt is a bruise on the outside. Harm is a bruise on the inside.”

“Hurt but do not harm? Zach asked. Whats the difference? Hurt is a bruise on the outside. Nora sipped her mineral water delicately. Harm is a bruise on the inside. If youre a masochist, pain feels l...”

“I'm no optimist", she said as she opened the cabinet door. " I'm just a realist who smiles too much.”

“I know you want to fuck me. And I know you wish you didnt. So how about we compromise and you can sit here and say, No, Nora, Dont, Nora, Stop, Nora, and Ill ignore all those protests and slide rig...”

“All words are pegs to hang ideas on.”

“A word is not the same with one writer as it is with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket.”

“No doubt I shall go on writing, stumbling across tundras of unmeaning, planting words like bloody flags in my wake....”