“Writhing bodies fused as one on the dance floor, limbs tingling, lungs drunk on the lust-filled air.”

“His body tensed as his gut was struck with a frozen bullet of shock. He couldnt breathe.”

“The most terrifying part was that the evil dwelling in those eyes could've gone unnoticed by many.”

“Physical pain was easy. It would always pass in the end. All it needed was time - a ticking clock.”

“Penguins don't waste their time trying to fly. Theyre unique. They know they were built for the water.”

“Penguins don't waste their time trying to fly. They’re unique. They know they were built for the water.”

“The only calibration that counts is how much heart people invest, how much they ignore their fears of being hurt or caught out or humiliated. And the only thing people regret is that they didn't li...”

“I wonder if fears ever really go away, or if they just lose their power over us.”

“Fear is all in the mind”

“Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect fo...”

“Of all the bright cruel lies they tell you, the cruelest is the one called love.”

“Don't cry, I'm sorry to have deceived you so much, but that's how life is.”

“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...”