I love you. I'm not sure if it's the way you want me to. I think it might be. But I know that I love you. I absolutely love you.

I want you to have big dreams, big goals. I want you to strive to achieve them. But I don't want to see you beating yourself up every time you make a mistake.

when times are tough, the weak bail and the tough get creative.

Wow. The guy can make me feel stupid even when he's telling me I don't have to let him make me feel stupid.

The rottweiler stood his ground and waited for me to take the next step in the dance of ritualized intimidation. Instead, I leaped at him. Screw ritual. Now was not the time to stand on ceremony.

Kids who don't eavesdrop on adult conversations are doomed to a childhood of ignorance.

Remembering. Forgetting. I'm not sure which is worse.

A name is so important. A surname connects you to your past, to your family. Even a given name has meaning - why did your parents pick that particular one?

First you buy me a mocha. Then you let me help you hide a body. Now you take me to a biker clubhouse. Best. Day. Ever.

He was trying to tell me something.' Derek snorted. 'Aren’t they all? Must be a rule in the ghost handbook—if in danger of evaporating, make sure you’re in the middle of a dire pronouncement.

I grew up writing about the paranormal, and I blame too many Saturday mornings watching Scooby Doo.

Be real and be unashamed, even of your faults. I do truly know what my husband is made of and vice versa.

Don't, but if at all, then, lie to the whole damn world - never to your own damn, silly stupid self.

We lie on the blanket, our bare bodies basking in the sun like Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. Only our apples were bitten a long time ago, and we ate them too.

The most meaningful way to succeed is to help others succeed.

We can't afford to waste tears on might-have-beens. We need to turn the tears into sweat that can take us to what can be.

History -- its what those bitter old men write.

Mozart has written opera, symphony, sacred and chamber music - not to mention his piano and violin concerti.

The English are a dumb people. They can do great acts, but not describe them.

You cannot, sir, take from me any thing that I will more willingly part withal: except my life, except my life, except my life.

Remorse ... is one of the many afflictions for which time finds a cure.