If only…the saddest words in the English language.

You asked why I couldn't forgive you, " Nick said, very quietly, and I jumped a little. "It was because you were the love of my life, Harper. And you didn't want to be. That's hard to let go.

....And then I turned and saw a guy staring at me...."What are you looking at, idiot?" I asked, giving him the sneer that had served me so well."My future wife. The mother of my children.

...It is a sad truth in life that when someone has lost a loved one, friends sometimes avoid the person, just when the presence of friends is most needed.

Book-publishing is all about politics. Agents, editors, which books will be puffed, which ignored, etc.

I wouldn't go back and change anything.

Surely my macking on some guy in an insane asylum wouldn't hurt him. He'd been living with his stalker, for heaven's sake.

Some guys look better as they get older.

Had it not been for the Atlantic Ocean and the virgin wilderness, the United States would never have been the Land of Promise.

True victory is self-victory; let that day arrive quickly!

Educate yourself. Don't let me educate you

be careful what you want, for you will get it.