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

“You need one person who knows you... Just one person you can't fool, even when you fool yourself.”

“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...”

“Only once in your life, I truly believe, you find someone who can completely turn your world around. You tell them things that youve never shared with another soul and they absorb everything you sa...”

“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”

“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there i...”