Ignorance might be bliss, but it's irresponsible and dangerous too.

Struggling is mandatory. Suffering is optional.

We were far more civilized in our divorce than we had ever been in marriage. It seemed we'd finally found something we could do together amicably.

My husband is a former Air Force pilot and my son is an active duty Army surgeon, recently returned from Iraq, so my pride in our military is passionate... and personal.

Count on Jill Shalvis for a witty, steamy, unputdownable love story.

My father, who suffered from hardening of the arteries, was diagnosed as having that tragic thief of the mind, Alzheimer's.

It's no good to lose touch with people who mean a lot.

I'm as interested in the families and communities that surround our soldiers.

I can't find a person without some link to the armed forces!

I didn’t want to cry in front of you.”He wiped away the tears with the pad of his thumb. in front of me.

Did you miss me?’“A little bit, ” she said with a shrug.“You have tears running down your cheeks, ” he said with a grin. “I think you missed me more than a little.

We have to change our way of thinking in order to be able to accept the changes that have already begun

Our rages daughters of despair creep and squirm like worms. Prayer is the only form of revolt which remains upright.

Prescription: A physician's guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient.

Exposition suggests a great trust in the reader, and this expression of trust makes a book feel tender.

Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as does a distinguished success.

Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.

Nonviolence in the sense of mere non-killing does not appear to me, therefore, to be of any improvement on the technique of violence.

It's better for the country when each party looks like it stands for something serious, for some big things, but they're not narrow and they're not bought.

Being resilient is the essence of my life.

I am a tropical black man.