May as well leave the door open.

But love is something that has to be as selfish as it is unselfish. You can't make yourself love someone because you feel like you should. Just wanting to love someone isn't enough.

I am a gym rat who loves to work out, particularly running, Zumba, yoga, cycling, and kickboxing.

I'm not asking for forever, Tamani said. Yet. I'm just asking for a moment.

Guess I've been reading too much fantasy.

No - the light in Tamani's eyes was much more than a reflection. It was the fire that melted her anger and devastated her resolve, every single time she saw it.

Are you looking for something real in this world of illusions? Call me. Casual Flings need not apply. I am looking for Love.

All I'm saying is that you shouldn't stay with him for the wrong reasons, even if they are noble ones. No one owes it to someone else to be their girlfriend. It's a choice you remake every day.

I just don't want to cozy up to the guy whose girl I have every intention of stealing.

Square root of a cosine? How is that ever going to be useful?

At the end of 'Illusions,' readers should see the inevitable coming.

Pain changes us. Mine made me want to be perfect, so that no one would ever want to leave me again.

Fiction is the most dangerous place in the world

People are always ashamed of the misery that has befallen them, as though it were an act of divine retribution for a long-forgotten sin of theirs

Everybody's business is nobody's business, and nobody's business is my business.

Maybe the words that I say is just another way to pray.

I get asked to give stuff to my dad. I'm, like, 'I'm not gonna pass your script to him!' You know? My dad's my dad. I'm not his agent.

I am a real ham. I love an audience. I work better with an audience. I am dead, in fact, without one.

The other person has wrong perceptions about himself and about us. And we have wrong perceptions about ourselves and the other person. And that is the foundation for violence and conflict and war.

I never understood where the satisfaction is when you're missing the pleasure of conquest.

Goal setting is fine if you want to be the warrior archetype.