Not into older guys, huh?" asked Adrian once we were alone."You're imagining things, " I said. "Clearly, my stunning beauty has clouded your mind.

You can't force love, I realized. It's there or it isn't. If it's not there, you've got to be able to admit it. If it is there, you've got to do whatever it takes to protect the ones you love.

It was impossible to get the Dimitri and Tasha thing out of my head, but at least packing and getting ready made sure I didn't devote 100 percent of my brain power to him. More like 95 percent.

There's nothing worse than waiting and not knowing what'll happen to you. Your own imagination can be crueler than any captor.

It was one thing to accept I couldn't have Dimitri. It was something entirely different to realize someone else could.

Things die. But they don't always stay dead. Believe me, I know.

Wow. What'd he do to deserve that? Rescue orphans from a burning building? If so, you might want to make sure he didn't set the building on fire in the first place.

This isn't a Christmas special! This is my life. In the real world, miracles and goodness just don't happen.

He'd barely seen me coming, and despite the horribleness of what I'd just done, I kind of wished one of my instructors had been there to grade me on such an awesome performance.

Good God. Men everywhere.

In the real world, you can make your own miracles

I am worthy of daily joy, and I will treat myself to a glorious day of complete bliss at least once per month.

I woke up and realized life is great and people are awesome and life is worth living.

The writing day can be, in some ways, too short, but it's actually a long series of hours, for months at a time, and there is a stillness there.

The talkers are rising above the thinkers.

An old-timer is someone who can remember when a naughty child was taken to the woodshed instead of to a psychiatrist.

For a man who has done his natural duty, death is as natural as sleep.

Smart, well-meaning people get it wrong when they start believing that the world owes them something and that the rules are different for them.

The only way to avoid age discrimination in Hollywood is to die young.

Nothing is difficult, when gain and honour unite their influence.

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. For what is enthusiasm but the oblivion and swallowing-up of self in an object dearer than self?