With Quinn, safety wasn’t even an illusion. It was an impossibility

Except for Quinn, a dark voice whispered in his mind. A smile from her would be a gift beyond price.

Yet where Denal had prayed to Poseidon for death, Alaric was praying to the same god for life.

We are capable of anything and everything

Let us be kind. It is the simplest way to touch someone's heart.

A good neighbor is a fellow who smiles at you over the back fence, but doesn't climb over it.

Some is, I think, the personal in any act of writing. You find yourself caught up: you start a sentence, and it becomes revelatory, not just of the character, but of you as well.

Your absence weighs more than someone else’s presence

I'm very good at forgetting people.

God wanted us to choose to love him.

Stop, open up, surrender the beloved blind silence. Stay there until you see you're looking at the light with infinite eyes.

If a jazz player is really playing, the classical player will have to respect him.