“The fact that you can't see how much you're worth makes you worth so much more." She opened her mouth once, her brow bunched, but nothing came out. She didn't know the words to ask. I continued. "A...”

“There was a tempest brewing in his eyes that I wasnt sure I would survive if I stayed in his gaze too long. But he told me with his sure hold that I could trust him and not to run before Id given h...”

“But when she finally did look up, I realized my fatal mistake. That by not leaping for her when she jumped, she thought that I no longer wanted to catch her.”

“Sometimes I just needed to talk about it, even though it singed like touching the end of a match. I just needed to feel that pain for a moment, to know that it was real. It was my pain. I had earne...”

“When you will you learn that we all have our place, our parts to play?I scoffed, wincing as the slices on my back pulled. When will you learn that its up to you if you play those parts or not?”

“Fly away home to a better place where everything is better, boys are never lost, and mothers dont ever leave.”

“What's meant to be will always find a way”

“Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together,but do so with all your heart.”

“Maybe there isnt such a thing as fate. Maybe its just the opportunities were given, and what we do with them. Im beginning to think that maybe great, epic romances dont just happen. We have to make...”

“His men had begun gathering the wounded or stunned into a small group some distance back up the slope. Here and there an animal or human stirred, but not many. There were few cries of pain or fear ...”

“There comes a point when you either embrace who and what you are, or condemn yourself to be miserable all your days. Other people will try to make you miserable; don't help them by doing the job yo...”

“A good science fiction story should be able to predict not the automobile but the traffic jam.”

“No matter how many times I've thought that the worst is behind us, something else always happens to remind me that the worst is yet to come.”

“We've all changed; shaped by circumstances we've been thrust into, molded by the choices we've made.”

“Part of me can't understand how Mom could do this. But there's that other part of me that can readily relate. Because I feel a pull in two different directions too.”