“What made Olive the saddest about the Gardners was that everyone wanted to be enshrined in someones memory. It was the only way of living on after death, really: in the minds of loved ones. Memorie...”

“It was a lesson she was still learning. When she had first started nursing, she had taken every death personally, like she was losing her father all over again. Every patient lost under her care wa...”

“[A dog is] a bundle of pure love, gift-wrapped in fur.”

“She loved him, and she was going to do everything she could to get him back. She hadnt come this far just to walk away. He was the love of her life, dammit. The man she wanted to marry. The world h...”

“Its easy to point out someone elses mistake, harder to recognize your own. Especially because most peopleexcept the lucky few like ourselvesare forced to live with their mistakes. So they learn to ...”

“It’s easy to point out someone else’s mistake, harder to recognize your own. Especially because most people—except the lucky few like ourselves—are forced to live with their mistakes. So they learn...”

“It seems to me that since I've had children, I've grown richer and deeper. They may have slowed down my writing for a while, but when I did write, I had more of a self to speak from.”

“It didn't matter that there was a war on our doorstep. She had things to do, places to be.”

“Stranger inside me, when you are born, I will give youa closed book and ask you never to read it, never rest, never forgive a man who wants to save you.”

“If you repeat something enough times, you will learn it. That's how it works!”

“Nature's far too subtle to repeat herself.”

“It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.”

“What selfish soulwould ask anotherto livethis way.”

“To a vampire, there is only selfishness.”

“Sometimes we realize that we are like facebook ,people using us for themselves , meeting each other via us , earning via us,taking all credits , even no one talking about us ,just using US .”