“There's nothing sexier than confidence, and nothing dumber than over-confidence. Life is all about where you draw the line between the two.”

“I love redheads. Its not the hair color, its the crazy.”

“Its easy to fall in love online with someone youd slide away from on a bus stop bench. A little too damn easy.”

“Bottoming doesn't make you a submissive any more than standing in my kitchen makes you a cook. By the way, while youre there, please make me a sandwich.”

“My new and improved Golden Rule: Dom unto others as you would have God Dom unto you.”

“A cage stokes our emotions and imaginations, regardless of whether you are inside looking out, or outside looking in.”

“Knowledge was like candy: you never turned it down, especially if you didn't have to work too hard to get it.”

“She grinned, looking for all the world like a sticky-mouthed little girl who had just convinced her gullible mother that she really did drop the first piece of candy into the storm drain and would ...”

“He was like her favorite type of candy, she realized, a bit sour at first but all sweetness in the long run. Admittedly . . . that tartness was part of the allure all along.”

“With all colors combined the world shines”

“Isn't it strange that I know you'd risk your life to save mine, but I don't even know what your favorite color is?”

“It is when we think we can act like God, that all respect is lost, and I think this is the downfall of peace. We lie if we say we do not see color and culture and difference. We fool ourselves and ...”

“I shiver, thinking how easy it is to be totally wrong about people-to see one tiny part of them and confuse it for the whole, to see the cause and think it's the effect or vice versa”

“At sunrise everything is luminous but not clear.”

“I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves.”