“Listen carefully. I'd crush you like a bug for causing my wife one single moment of pain. Believe it. Fear it. ”

“Bite me." -Lieutenant Eve Dallas, from any of the In Death books.”

“She, as no other ever could, reached every corner of his heart. His joy, and his salvation.”

“Lord, Give me the strength not to bitch slap this woman.”

“That's science fiction shit," "It's only fiction until science catches up.”

“He'd wanted her. Out of all the women in the world, he'd wanted her. Wanted, hell, she thought grinning now. Pursued, demanded. Taken. And while she could admit all of that was exciting, he'd gone ...”

“Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.”

“You think because he doesn't love you that you are worthless. You think that because he doesn't want you anymore that he is right -- that his judgement and opinion of you are correct. If he throws ...”

“The only noise now was the rain, pattering softly with the magnificent indifference of nature for the tangled passions of humans.”

“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”

“No matter how many times I've thought that the worst is behind us, something else always happens to remind me that the worst is yet to come.”

“We've all changed; shaped by circumstances we've been thrust into, molded by the choices we've made.”

“Part of me can't understand how Mom could do this. But there's that other part of me that can readily relate. Because I feel a pull in two different directions too.”