There were worse things than death, as she'd discovered. Sometimes living took far more courage. Facing another day. Enduring. Those things took strength. Far more than dying.

You hold your head up. You submitting to me doesn't mean you're anything less...the very last thing I want is for you to be some mindless puppet.

Most of all, I want you to know without a doubt that I've got your back. And your front. And your sides. I've got all of you and I'm not letting go.

Bad things happen to good people all the time. It sucks. It's not fair but then much of life isn't fair. It's how you live that matters. It's how you deal with the bumps in the road.

Words are just words. The evidence is in how you act, how you react.

You need to worry less about what everyone else thinks and focus on what makes you happy

Ahh, you’re a man used to getting his own way.” “Always,” he said in a husky growl.

Seeing you happy is the best gift I could ever ask for.

I'm getting the impression that women, in any form, scare you." He shrugged. "They're the more violent species. And unpredictable. I'd rather take on a wild boar. You can't shoot women.

Maybe I didn't always know what I was missing, but it was you. Always you.

Some crushes just never went away. They built, instead, into something permanent, obsessive and all consuming.

Don’t waste your time in anger, regrets, worries, and grudges. Life is too short to be unhappy.

For survivors, the word closure often connotes that the bereaved are underachievers who flunked a grief course.

I do not believe in collective guilt.

Without deviance from normality, there can be no progress.

fiction is not only the historian of life but its apologist.

COLD. Healthier than heat.

They were fast-moving opportunists encased in cynicism and proud of it.

You have to get up every morning and tell yourself 'I can do this.'

It is always a strain when people are being killed. I don't think anybody has held this job who hasn't felt personally responsible for those being killed.

The American Museum of Natural History is my son's absolute favorite place in the world! So we really, really, really love New York.