The first two chapters of any first draft generally need to be cut.

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.

I never said nothing...""I know you never! I could hear you not saying anything! You've got the loudest silences I ever did hear from anyone who wasn't dead!

Integrity is a virtue which defines the depth of life.

Morrie, ” Koppel said, “that was seventy years ago your mother died. The pain still goes on?”“You bet, ” Morrie whispered.

They are a couple in love, and anyone but a fool would see it is simply that, nothing more- and certainly nothing less.

The soles of his shoes are worn the way the edges of erasers become rounded with use. As though he walks around correcting his mistakes.

My life is fairly normal. I didn't wake up one morning and find out that I'm suddenly a star, with people clamoring at me. I feel like I'm moving up the ladder just a little, which is fine.

All I have to do is be the best Al I can be, because I'm good enough, I'm smart enough and, doggone it, people like me.

It's exciting to be with really, really good people. Some people make you feel like you've got to up your game. Working with good people is always good.

We can never travel beyond the arms of the Divine.

In the chapter on the nature of the atonement [in the book saving Calvinism] I argue that it is a mistake to think that penal substitution is the only option on the doctrine of atonement.