The fate of your heart is your choice and no one else gets a vote

Love is needing someone. Love is putting up with someone's bad qualities because they somehow complete you.

You know, when it works, love is pretty amazing. It's not overrated. There's a reason for all those songs.

Wherever you will go, I will let you down, But this lullaby goes on.

I knew this feeling, the 2 a.m. loneliness that I'd practically invented.

Love is so unpredictable. That's what makes it so great.

Are those the only options? Nothing or forever?

You know, when it works, love is amazing. It's not overrated.

Timing clicking together, finally, pieces falling into place.

I planned my whole future around Adam, ' she said now, quietly. 'And now I have nothing.''No, ' I told her, 'now you just don't have Adam. There's a big difference, Lissa. You just can't see it yet.

No matter how you feel you have to actlike you are very popular with yourself

There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.

Nothing can make a face more impenetrable than the mask of kindliness.

Dammit, why isn’t there a book with the answers in it?

In Illinois, where legislators are paid $45, 000, plus as much as $10, 000 for leadership work, about half are full-time politicians.

If you look up the word "gab" in the dictionary, it's insignificant of importance, of no substance. That's what gab is.

Some kids want to know why the teachers get paid when it's the kids who have to do all the work.

A girl who is really pretty - whether she wraps herself in an abayah, a nun's habit, or the front hall rug - never wraps herself so that the world can't tell.

There are occasions that I love to be fashionable and enjoy, you know? But the work day of a mother doesn't include a hair making team or any consideration of your shoe.

So, I can hurt now, or hurt later.