Temporary homecomings are bittersweet. Sometimes it's better not to go back at all than to have to leave again.

Happiness is a strange, frightening, fragile feeling when you're not used to it.

The ice inside me melts. Suddenly, I'm burning up and terrified, scared I'll be too weak to resist.Scratch that - I'm petrified I've already given in.

I dread this power he has over me. It makes me want to tell him all my secrets and see if he still wants me.

I roll my eyes. "Oh, the woe of being adored."Beta Sinta grins. "It's a hard life.

I want him everywhere. I burn for him in places he hasn't even touched.

Griffin leans closer, his voice dropping to a low, suggestive rumble only I can hear. "There are things I could boast about, but I'd rather show than tell.

His tongue swirls against my skin, and I gasp. His voice rough with passion, he rasps, "You're living fire. I burn.

I want you. I need you. For as many hours as possible, I don't want to think about anything but you.

Have I cheated death again? Hades must be allergic to me.

Be where you are, stop over-thinking, and focus on what you are doing.

There is more to life than just surviving it. Inside each turbulence there is a calm -- a sliver of light buried in the darkness.

I would not know how I am supposed to feel about many stories if not for the fact that the TV news personalities make sad faces for sad stories and happy faces for happy stories.

The only success worth one's powder was success in the line of one's idiosyncrasy ... what was talent but the art of being completely whatever one happened to be?

God dwells in the heart where praise is.

It is impossible to get anywhere without sinning against reason.

Once you experience enormity, it lingers everywhere you look, and want to be every word you say.

Since love is folly, a foolish woman is more dangerous than a wise one.

All politicians are to some extent salesmen.

America thinks of itself as a meritocracy, so people have more respect for success and more contempt for failure.