I don't know how you persist in being so stubborn-" "It's a superpower. I was bitten by a radioactive mule.

No more crying. It's all wetness and no comfort at all.

But, how do you know if an ending is truly good for the characters unless you've traveled with them through every page?

All I've ever wanted was to be near you.

Many times I have learned that, you never judge a book by its cover. Like people, it is the inside that counts.

Writing a first draft and reminding myself that I'm simply shoveling sand into a box so that later I can build castles.

Mama used to say, you have to know someone a thousand days before you can glimpse her soul.

It was karma, it was kismet, it was magic. It doesn't matter how it happened, just that it did.

I think the only way to get through this life is laughing hard and constantly, mostly at myself.

You are my butterfly and refuse to set you free.

I do like the world quite a lot.

If you want people to believe you, appeal to their hearts not to their brains

With boys there was a fundamental assumption that they had a right to be there—not always, but more often than not. With girls, Why her? came up so quickly.

It's American to be from somewhere else, and it's American to go from East to West. It's American to seek your fortune someplace other than where you are, or to be escaping something...

The most admirable quality among people is when we pause and think of something to say, without ripping others to shreds (even if they deserved it).

It's hard to get fired from the government. You have to, like, kill people.

Let the desert wind cool your aching head. Let the weight of the world - drift away instead

Professor Lyall, cursing his Alpha for departing so precipitously, balled up the piece of paper and, after minor consideration for the delicacy of the information it contained, ate it.

Caring for our own hearts isn't selfishness; it's how we begin to love.

That one thing you do give up when you get married is that magic moment of meeting someone, and the sparks and the spontaneity.

No woman should give her happiness into the keeping of a man without fixed principles.