If you leave, we lose and our pasts win.

If souls could be mated with wishes, ours would be inextricably entwined.

Oh, Eva." He rubbed his cheek against my damp face. "I must've wished for you so hard and so often you had no choice but to come true.

As a writer, it's disheartening to write books that you pour your soul into and not have them distributed widely enough to find their audience.

Day One of my life was the day I met you.

Angel, a crowd of millions couldn’t hide you from me. I found you once. I’ll always find you.

Romance isn't in my repertoire, Eva. But a thousand ways to make you come are. Let me show you.

People get over love. They can live without it, they can move on. Love can be lost and found again. But that won't happen for me. I won't survive you, Eva.

I want you too much. I want you with me, in my life, in my bed. If i can have that, nothing else matters.

You’re the greatest risk I’ve ever taken.” His pressed his lips gently to mine. “And the greatest reward.

I can't go long without you either, Eva. You're an addiction...my obsession.

It takes a well-spent lifetime, and perhaps more, to crystalize in us that for which we exist.

Silence is an ornament for women.

We don't want someone who will get 98 percent of the vote. We want someone who will get 51 percent of the vote.

Create unselfishness as the most important team attribute.

I was the kid who read a lot and who was academic, and who was more of an indoor person than an outdoor person. I would win the summer reading contest at the library.

I haven't put on a baseball uniform since about age 12. It's like I'm wearing a Halloween costume. I'm pretending to be a ballplayer.

Needless to say, banks and bondholders do not want to promote any arguments explaining the limits to how much can be paid without pushing economies into depression.

Put a thorn in every enjoyment, a worm in every gourd, that would either prevent my being wholly thine, or in any measure retard my progress in the divine life.

When you abandon making choices, you enter the vast world of excuses.

It ain't like football. You can't make up no trick plays.