If you want, I can carry you—” “I’m fine,” she said shortly. “Let’s go.” He’d said that wrong. He should have said, “I want to carry you.

Dare, dream, dance, smile, and sing loudly! And have faith that love is an unstoppable force!

My favorite color is you.

Recovering from a gunshot wound is not a vacation. You need to, like, write that on your hand or something.

No doubt about it, Lawrence Decker was the reason God had invented nakedness.

Sometimes it takes you awhile to get to it, but you always get there, and what you say is always worth waiting for.

This wasn't Weirdville, this was fricking Wonderland. Alice here was all grow up, but she was still chowing down on too much of that psychedelic mushroom.

Marriage equality is coming, and not merely to a theater near you.

The lust and attraction are often a given in a romance novel - I want to dig into the elements of true friendship that form a foundation for a solid, gonna-last-forever romantic relationship.

Life. Unfair and painful at times. But always moving forward, always shifting,changing, with times relentless passage smoothing down jagged parts until it no longer hurts quite so much to breathe.

Forget about writing to Penthouse. This one was going to be a story for their grandkids.

Now what state do you live in?''Denial.

He who knows all the answers has not been asked all the questions.

What may appear as audacity God views as authenticity.

During the Civil War, on hearing complaints that Gen. Ulysses S. Grant drank alcohol to excess Find out what Grant drinks and send a barrel of it to each of my other generals!

It was so easy living day by day Out of touch with the rhythm and blues But now I need a little give and take The New York Times, The Daily News.

Everything I write, I read out loud. It has to sound a certain way. It has to look a certain way on the page.

'Are you guys busy?' Juniper asked. 'Well,' I said, 'we're in the middle of this game against a bunch of monsters and we're trying not to die.' 'We're not busy,' Annabeth said.

The next thing I would have to go with is diet because it is so hard and mentally tough. By comparison the training is the easiest of them all because it's my hobby as well as my job.

I became so consumed with trying to live up to what the public expected that I lost myself. I don't know of anyone else who can say this

I think one of the most poignant things is unrequited love and loneliness.