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

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.

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

The rage that had expolded inside me diffused. I didn't know where it had come from. I had a short temper and often acted impulsively, but this had been intense and ugly even for me. Weird.

Many men are broken in spirit because of bitterness.

Love does not wear out the heart, even if it weighs a thousand tons.

When you come into a movie theatre, there are no windows, you don't hear the sound outside and you're ready for fantasy.

We're electrical items and when we die the electricity goes somewhere else. When we die our energy goes into the galaxy.

Fiction supplies the only philosophy that may readers know; it establishes their ethical, social, and material standards; it confirms them in their prejudices or opens their minds to a wider world.

I am a maker of useful things.

Don't write too much. Concentrate your sweat on one story, rather than dissipate it over a dozen.

I love short trips to New York; to me it is the finest three-day town on earth.

I took a Fear of Flying class, and I always missed the class, because I was always flying.

You‘ve got to start with the customer experience and work back toward the technology - not the other way around.