“You are a leader. It is time to lead. You must inspire, you must plan, you must make the world a better place.”

“There was always an opportunity in crisis, however desperate things seemed.”

“The only people who fear death are the ones who haven't lived.”

“Evolution taught us that adaptation is the key to survival.”

“Humans are destructive animals, but they are also wise ones.”

“She knew that each emotion came and went, knew that she could cope with whatever life threw at her.”

“With a secret like that, at some point the secret itself becomes irrelevant. The fact that you kept it does not.”

“Then Cassie told her story. The feeling was like gathering up everything she's ever done or felt or known up to that moment and tying it into a ball and pitching it with all her might as far away a...”

“Every woman needs secrets,' her mother said with a smile then, her eyes meeting Sally's in the rearview mirror. 'Remember that when you're old like me, pumpkin, because the world has a way of makin...”