“In art, music, and writing, if it's not of the heart, it means nothing.”

“Only the broken beyond repair could know my anguish.”

“Even the shortest love story reminds me of how much I love you.”

“A person who loves you through your idiosyncrasies, despite the tiny inclusions, is a diamond worth keeping.”

“She refused to know love again. The thought of another heartbreak was far too much for her to bear.”

“Just when you think you have it all figured out, an epiphany arrives at the higher level of one's consciousness.”

“But some characters in books are really real--Jane Austen's are; and I know those five Bennets at the opening of Pride and Prejudice, simply waiting to raven the young men at Netherfield Park, are ...”

“You take people, you put them on a journey, you give them peril, you find out who they really are.”

“A novel must show how the world truly is, how characters genuinely think, how events actually occur. A novel should somehow reveal the true source of our actions.”

“And once you've been to this Center, this Truth, you'll know your way everywhere. You are never lost again.”

“The Queen's Pride was his ship, and he loved her. (That was the way his sentences always went: It is raining today and I love you. My cold is better and I love you. Say hello to Horse and I love yo...”

“What Joab did not and could not know was that it was ego, and the ego of a king is just like the ego of anyone else. It is a social infection, entering each person as a psychological virus that is ...”