Letting yourself be vulnerable isn't always a weakness. Sometimes it can be a conscious decision to draw the other person out.

Acting like you don't care is not letting it go.

Experience is the best teacher.

If you beat metal long enough, it turns to steel.

The point is some people think they have a leading role when, really, they're just supporting cast.

That’s the thing about change. It can be gradual. Slow and almost unnoticeable. Or it can be sudden, and you don’t even know how you could’ve been any other way.

Maybe that's the thing I'd been missing about love. You don't withhold it or partition it out when it's deserved. You can't control it like that.

Isn't it about time you fought back?

I want to feel what’s mine. What’s always been mine.

Sometimes I wore smiles but didn’t feel them. Sometimes I felt them and didn’t wear them. I didn’t want her to know how much I craved this. I bit my bottom lip.

But we were different now. I wanted only his pain, and judging from the girl he’d come home with last night, Madoc was still the same. A user.

The language of marriage is often a language of ownership, not a language of partnership.

The fastest way to end an argument with your wife is to admit she’s right.

The earth doesn't move backward (very much) when you walk only because it's much more massive than you are.

Attention is what creates value. Artworks are made as well by how people interact with them - and therefore by what quality of interaction they can inspire.

Life... is like a grapefruit. It's orange and squishy, and has a few pips in it, and some folks have half a one for breakfast.

Sometimes silence was easiest, when the only word left was good-bye.

I don't like parties past 2 am. Then it's all losers and weirdos.

When I was younger, I never thought there could be anything better than the glory of battle. (Sparhawk) And now? (Taryn) Now I would much rather coax a smile from your face. (Sparhawk)

He who seeks possessions for himself will never find them-until he begins to give of the abundance of possessions which he already has.

Justice is justly represented blind, because she sees no difference in the parties concerned. She has but one scale and weight, for rich and poor, great and small.