“It never meant anything, Moses says. Not to the god above it and not to the earth below it. It never did. Not even when they first did it. But its the doin it that counts. Its something. You draw i...”

“Honey, she says, honest aint the half of what Im not.”

“Stories that pander to your every readerly desire and whim are like overly loyal dogs that live for the simple glow of your approval. I'm a cat person. I like a little aloofness in my pets and my w...”

“To stop. To cease, just for a moment. To turn your back on the world, to close your eyes - to see the nothing that is not rather than the nothing that is everywhere around you. To just be quiet in ...”

“It's one of the happy things about a world gone so wrong: your personal freakishness don't stand out so much.”

“Honey, she says, honest aint the half of what Im not.”

“[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...”