None of us ever know all the possible courses our lives could have and maybe should have taken. It's probably just as well. Some secrets are meant to stay secret forever. Just ask Pandora.

Falling in love was easy.anyone could fall. It was holding on that was tricky

Those we love don't go away, they sit beside us every day.

All conflict can be traced back to someone's feelings getting hurt, don't you think?

You’ve been here before. It won’t kill you. It feels like you can’t breathe, but you actually are breathing. It feels like you’ll never stop crying, but you actually will.

But maybe every life looked wonderful if all you saw was the photo albums.

All these years there had been a Tupperware container of bad language in her head, and now she opened it and all those crisp, crunchy words were fresh and lovely, ready to be used.

Some secrets are meant to stay secret forever.

Just because a marriage ended didn't mean that it hadn't been happy at times.

Perhaps nothing was ever “meant to be.” There was just life, and right now, and doing your best. Being a bit “bendy.

Happy endings always made her cry. It was the relief.

RUMOR, n. A favorite weapon of the assassins of character.

We wanted black power to be all things to all people.

I don't really have a lot of appropriate feelings for people on an individual basis, but I've always wanted to make people happy.

When you're my age and you see a story, you better go for it pretty quickly. I'd just like to get a few more novels under my belt.

It is not enough to be a hardworking person. Think: what do you work at?

People have no human rights, only the rights that they can gain on the labour market. Above all, wealth and power have to be protected.

You don't become the character

I'll sue!" Ian sputtered. "I'll sue you AND the dog. And the country of South Korea. And...and..." "The landscape architect?" Natalie asked. "The landscape architect!" Ian shouted.

I have had almost every job under the sun, it feels like. One of the first jobs I took was as a door-to-door pest control salesman in Raleigh, North Carolina.

The expression of divinity is in variety.