“If you spend your time hoping someone will suffer the consequences for what they did to your heart, then you're allowing them to hurt you a second time in your mind.”

“Spirituality has a language of it's own and some people haven't learned to speak it.”

“When you are joyful, when you say yes to life and have fun and project positivity all around you, you become a sun in the center of every constellation, and people want to be near you.”

“There comes a time in your life when you have to choose to turn the page, write another book or simply close it.”

“A true gentleman is one that apologizes anyways, even though he has not offended a lady intentionally. He is in a class all of his own because he knows the value of a woman's heart.”

“They will hate you if you are beautiful. They will hate you if you are successful. They will hate you if you are right. They will hate you if you are popular. They will hate you when you get attent...”

“You can find anyone that will tell you what you want to hear, but the only one worth valuing is the one that tells you what you need to learn.”

“...[F]rom me you shall hear the whole truth; not, I can assure you, gentlemen, in flowery language... decked out with fine words and phrases; no, what you will hear will be a straightforward speech...”

“Am I too blunt? If the truth is too hard to swallow, should I feed you soft lies?”

“We kissed each other until we were too tired to keep going. I could still feel him holding back. It was my penance for what I had done to him. All I could do was hope the walls would fall and that ...”

“It is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else's life with perfection.”

“She wasnt crying at all. This was what scared him the most. Where had she locked up the things hed seen her feeling that day when she heard? She wasnt that big a girl to hold all of itto hold her b...”

“[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...”