Life had a way of shifting under her feet like quicksand and she had learned to just make the best of it. Like Gigi always said, ‘when God closes a door, he shoves you out the window.

Private fireworks are far superior to public fireworks.

We don’t have to tell secrets. We don’t have to talk at all. We could just, you know, kiss . . . and stuff.

Damn, I really want to kiss you.

That place is turning into the Hotel California.You know, you can check in, but you can never leave.

It’s hard raising parents.

Too bad he was officially the enemy.

Her life was more like a series of tattered Post-it notes with hastily scribbled goals written in dull pencil. Some of them stuck. Lots of them didn’t.

The best way to see Faith is to shut the eye of Reason.

Forget that blind ambition, and learn to trust your intuition.

The most painful thing is losing Someone who was always beside you...!

Sometimes only pain can obliterate pain.

Blacks have a special history, since they were enslaved and were here as early as the first Americans. I hate to sound like a liberal but these are facts. That makes blacks a special group.

Everything we experience-no matter how unpleasant-comes into our lives to teach us something.

I have doubts! I have such doubts!

You are your own best friend. Never ever, put yourself down.

I am drawn to characters that go on journeys, characters that are real people, that have life.

A little while alone in your room will prove more valuable than anything else that could ever be given you.