And she was well-enough acquainted with loneliness to understand that the worst part wasn't having nobody caring for you - it was having nobody to care for.

Why must this be so mortifying? Oh, that's right. Because its my life.

He rubbed his hands up and down, warming her. “Then that’s all you need to know. I have you. If there are beasties in the dark, they have to get through me.

Izzy felt as though she’d wandered into the third act of a play. She had no idea what was going on, but it was unbearably dramatic.

Of course one kiss changes things. If it's done right, a kiss changes everything.

No man deserves a woman like that. He mortgages his very soul to win her and spends his life paying off the debt.

Then she sighed. Just the faintest, softest release of breath. The sound swept through his chest like a hurricane, with the force to topple trees.

Struggles, challenges and obstacles are nothing but the doorways to future blessings.

In department stores, so much kitchen equipment is bought indiscriminately by people who just come in for men's underwear.

You have to work out where your place is. And who you are. But we're all spirit. That's all we are, we're just walking dressed up in a suit of skin, and we're going to leave that behind.

When I lost my decathlon world record I took it like a man. I only cried for ten hours.

As a matter of fact, even when I finished law school, I had no notion of public service then.

Personally, it’s rude. You got three kids with the lady, she just did 17 years for you and you’re not gonna leave your...whatever!

In the end it doesn't matter what you do.

If you're patient and you wait long enough, something will usually happen and it'll usually be something you don't like.

Truth allows no choice.

We can be richer than industry as long as we know that there's things that we don't really need