Sometimes, the stars line up, the gods smile, and love gets a fighting chance. Just a chance. That's all it can really hope for. No guarantees, no certainties

The dead do not hurt you; only the living do.

That's what falling in love really amounted to, your brain on drugs. Adrenaline and dopamine, oxytocin and serotonin. Chemical insanity, celebrated by poets.

Only the forgotten are truly dead.

We dream our dreams, and sometimes they take us to places we never anticipate. But they are our dreams, and we go where they lead.

Where we go depends on what we know, and what we know depends on where we go.

The most intimate feeling people can share is neither love nor hate, but pain.

The one man you most want to sleep with may be the worst choice of all.

The Christmas tree, twinkling with lights, had a mountain of gifts piled up beneath it, like offerings to the great god of excess.

Death does not discriminate; whether saints or sinners, in the end, all are equal.

The heart makes its choices without weighing the consequences. It doesn't look ahead to the lonely nights that follow.

Tough times never last. Tough people do

One thunderbolt strikesroot through everything

An envy of that one consummate partSwept me, who mock. Whether I laugh or weep, Some inner silences are at my heart.

The sweetest noise on earth, a woman's tongue; A string which hath no discord.

He is at no end of his actions blestWhose ends will make him greatest, and not best.

Paris, like every pretty woman, is subject to inexplicable whims of beauty and ugliness.

The whole creation is so tenderly balanced - this manifests the mastery of the Creator.

Our visibility shouldn’t be subject to such extreme circumstances.

Throat clutching from the outset! The Never List stands as a sterling example of psychological thriller writing at its best. Cancel appointments and give up on sleep. It's that kind of book.

There's one great script that hit my desk that I didn't change at all, and that was True Romance.