“Misunderstanding and distrustthe predominant elements of a novel. Without them, everyone lives happily from beginning.”

“You'll never get to the happily ever after if you don't move past the current chapter...”

“I was behind, but now I'm below. Hopefully, they'll have books wherever I go...”

“A great book increases my heartbeat as if Im prey, melts my insides in anticipation of a first kiss, immerses me in its depths.”

“Publishing a book is like being pregnant. By the end, you're just ready to get that baby out!”

“Like the roller coaster of life...novels aren't fun without ups and downs and even an occasional loop.”

“We are all children of one God and the only thing that separates us is our ego”

“You smoked another cigarette and we shared another coffee and it was just another morning that made me realise that this is all it takes to be happy.”

“The truth is I do love you. Admitting that means opening myself up to all that pain when you leave. After you realize this wasnt love, but gratitude.”

“There used to be days that I thought I was okay, or at least that I was going to be. We'd be hanging out somewhere and everything would just fit right and I would think 'it will be okay if it can j...”

“I want to try with someone who loves me enough to try with me. I want to grow old looking at the same face every morning. I want to grow old looking at the same face every night at the dinner table...”

“Hes dozed off again, but I kiss him awake, which seems to startle him. Then he smiles as if hed be happy to lie there gazing at me forever.”

“I think we ought to live happily ever after.”

“So what's the point, then, if we can't be happy? Why are we doing any of this?""Oh, there's definitely happiness," Jack said, turning his back on the ocean and looking at her. "But it's just about ...”

“Happily ever after doesnt just happen because youve found the love of your life. Happiness is a personal choice.”