Nobody wants to believe that existence carries on without at least taking a stumble from their departure of this world.

We feel most alive when we are closest to death.

All statistics have outliers.

Once a flower is picked it immediately begins to die.

If you don't feel the same way about him, if you're just leading him on, you need to tell him that. I've seen too many nice guys get shafted because a girl can't get over some jerk.

Why did this keep happening? Why her? Perhaps there was some pheromone certain people omitted, perceivable only on a wavelength unique to those individuals who preyed on them.

Now she knew living was just a brief hiatus, a blip really, in the infinite line of nothingness that composed that shadowy realm of the unknown. It could stop at any time.

When we mated I felt your heart stop beating and it was as if the world had stopped turning. It was only while surrounded by death that I realized I had never felt more alive.

We're all hunters in my family, you know. Deer, ducks…damsels.

That's how it started: a series of small hurts and excuses between two people that built up slowly, widening over time to form a vast and yawning divide.

Behind every sweet smile, there is a bitter sadness that no one can ever see and feel.

Oh good Lord. She definitely hadn't put on enough deodorant for this.

Now I'm trying to work outside first person. I do plan to write more books.

Listening without bias or distraction is the greatest value you can pay another person.

I find that if I get up and push myself, I get lost in what I'm doing, and I forget about everything else until I stop doing it.

Education makes a greater difference between man and man than nature has made between man and brute.

What Chavez has done [in Venezuela] is that he has brought extreme poverty to an end.

Men have never been individually self-sufficient.

I am a person who sticks to her word.

The Constitution deals with substance, not shadows.