“Anger was simple, self-sustaining as a cactus. You couldn't look too closely at it, lest the spines get you in the eye.”

“But that was the least of it. He knew the worst of her, and that was better.”

“The best lies were the simplest and made the most sense, in the mind and in the mouth.”

“Grace hated lying, got no joy from it, and this was how she knew she wasn't pathological.”

“The universe would give you whatever you wanted if you twisted its arm hard enough.”

“She hadn't realized she was lonely until she began to understand that other people were not.”

“[H]iding how you really feel and trying to make everyone happy doesn't make you nice, it just makes you a liar.”

“Love is honesty. Love is a mutual respect for one another.”

“The fact that Ridge has been honest in his conversations with me is not something he did wrong. The fact that he has feelings for me also isnt wrong, when you know exactly how much hes fought those...”

“Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect fo...”

“Of all the bright cruel lies they tell you, the cruelest is the one called love.”

“Don't cry, I'm sorry to have deceived you so much, but that's how life is.”