Sometimes it just doesn’t seem to matter that I know what I should be doing. I still do what I am gonna do.

If you can't say anything nice, at least have the decency to be vague.

Shalvis makes me laugh, makes me cry, makes me sigh with pure pleasure.

What is it about men, anyway? You can't live with 'em and the law frowns on neutering them. It's not exactly a win-win situation.

You don't talk much, do you, angel-face? I like that in a woman.

Ah women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.

And if her heart was breaking with every step she took, at least he would never know.

It was pretty much the male code not to let your friends have too much fun if there was any chance you could throw a wrench in their good times.

I've been a perfect lady my entire life, and somebody just tried to shoot me, anyway. Grandmother was wrong. Goodness is not its own reward.

Be good. It'll be a new experience.

Finally he turned his head toward her face and brushed a kiss over her cheek. “I love you and I believe with all my heart that you love me as well. Why can’t you say it, Hero?

I like it better when my room is pitch black, when the dark is so thick it swallows me up and I feel as if I could drown in it.

I'm a very physical person. I'm very tactile. I wrestled in college, so a lot of my communication with the world comes through physicality - what I take in and what I put out there.

If you like to run, you should keep running!

I pursue this dream and carry on. I don't dwell too much on the outside, I just focus on the inside.

Atlanta is not like New York, where everybody piles into one place.

Ideas are cheap and abundant; what is of value is the effective placement of those ideas into situations that develop into action.

It's over when you decide it's over," Norah says. "When you call it a night. The rest is just a matter of where the sun is in the sky. That has nothing to do with us.

We need to help those we seek to serve, to know for themselves that God not only loves them, but He is ever mindful of them and of their needs.

Don't worry about how pretty (the story) sounds, how lilting it is, and the imagery, and the metaphor, all that. Most readers don't care. It's the people in your book that matter.