I'm glad she's not faking affection. It's more honest than what her husband is doing, at least. Dislike is an emotion I can respect.

I want to be someone strong and brave enough to make hard choices. But I want to be fair and loving enough to make the right ones.

Often, when I am able to check out a book, I read it a dozen times before returning it, desperate to remain lost in the magic of someone else's story.

I'm not sure how we got to this place, where a girl's only value is in what kind of marriage she has, how capable she is of keeping a man happy.

My father might not have held my hand or expressed his love openly, but he taught Callie and me that we had inherent values, that we were fully formed human beings without a boy by our side.

But there's something fundamentally wrong in a system where a girl like Meredith would even consider staying with a boy like Dylan if she has the chance to be free of him.

I don't trust most people. Except for you.""Why me?""Because everyone needs someone to put their faith in.

You’re easy to read, Ivy, but the whole book of you is complicated.

My mission is not to make him happy and bear his children and be his wife. My mission is to kill him.

But I want to be better than the lessons they taught me. I want my love to be greater that my hate, my mercy to be stronger than my vengeance.

There are only two choices. Stay here and die. Or get up and see what happens next.

Maintaining a good health is the biggest investment that you could ever make, because without it, a lot of things in life would become impossible.

In the twilight, it was a vision of power.

We can never prove that we're alone in the universe. But the Allen Telescope Array could prove that we're not.

You make friends with older people and you always feel young no matter what.

Life and hope must cease together.

I started out doing covers.

There are no flowers in the Moon; that's why the Moon is a boring place!

If it's not American, the French won't go see it.

I love the laconic. Clearly, I am not of their number.

As long as I have people's attention, I can't stop. You can't put the public on hold, because they might not be there when you get back. I have a pathological fear of stopping.