Being this close to him was like sitting under a hotness heat lamp. In the desert. At high noon.

She'd taken his heart and his virginity and left him more bitter than sweet.

The Sweets rarely set foot on the avenues. They'd always lived on the street-side of town, where duct tape held everything together and WD-40 stopped the squeaks.

West Virginia had the Hatfield and the McCoys. Shakespeare had the Capulets and the Montagues. Salvation had the Martins and the Sweets.

And suddenly, her day turned into the kind that explained why God invented chocolate, comfy pants, and booze.

She hadn't just drunk the Salvation Kool-Aid - she'd started to brew her own.

He has one in a million chance of being with her, yet he dreams about that single chance every night.

All lines are gray in the dark.

Sufism is the essence of all religions.

A wise man sees as much as he ought not as much as he can.

When a woman's clothes are in harmony with her emotions, she shines from within.

When I became my masked identity I was this incredible little nerd, but in the real world I had to be this tough kid from the neighborhood.

Why are we inspired by another person's courage? Maybe because it gives us the sweet and genuine surprise of discovering some trace, at least, of the same courage in ourselves.

I like being famous. It can be a bit of a pain but you get free food in restaurants and people send you clothes.

I have the rematch that I wanted. I'm going to knockout a Mexican and I will reconquer my title

Emotions are the end result, the sum, of things learned