“Real love finds you once, if you're lucky.”

“God is love," she said. "And he respects love, whether it's between a parents, and child, a man and woman, or friends. I don't think he cares about religion one little bit. Live your life right. Lo...”

“Did you ever, when you were little, endure your parents warnings, then wait for them to leave the room, pry loose protective covers and consider inserting some metal object into an electrical outle...”

“in a woman's womb.another chance.to make the world better.”

“God wasn't love, couldn't be love. Because for me, love was a corpse.”

“I had never kissed a boy, had never even considered that I might enjoy such an unclean thing, until literature opened my eyes.”

“Life isn't worth living if you're scared all the time. -Jordan”

“I felt angry, frustrated.I felt I didn't belong, not in my,church, not in my home, not in my skin.”

“The Loneliness of the Military HistorianConfess: it's my professionthat alarms you.This is why few people ask me to dinner,though Lord knows I don't go out of my way to be scary.I wear dresses of s...”

“I love the way she feels inthe curve of my arm. I loveher unpretentious beauty,her intelligence, her nerve.But could I ever love her?The concept of falling in loveis completely foreign, somethingI ...”

“...Every word an author writes causes ripples, like tossing a stone into a pond. And you don't know where they'll go, or who they'll touch, or when they might come back to you. I think everything y...”

“Forgiveness isnt my best thing.Easier staying pissed. But Imtired of being pissed all the time.Tired of feeling hurt by stuff thatcan never be fixed because it isan indelible part of the past.”

“here she is, all mine, trying her best to give me all she can. How could I ever hurt her? But I didnt understand then. That I could hurt somebody so badly she would never recover. That a person can...”

“Any happiness, no matter how brief, seemed better than the long, simmering torture of waking up day after day, knowing I could never have him.”

“Everyone always wants to know how you can tell when it's true love, and the answer is this: when the pain doesn't fade and the scars don't heal, and it's too damned late.”