Trust. Such an easy word. Such an impossible quality.

Life gives us choices. You either grab on with both hands and just go for it, or you sit on the sidelines.

She was temptation wrapped in casual elegance.

The trouble is not really in being alone, it's being lonely. One can be lonely in the midst of a crowd, don't you think?

And maybe that was love. Being so vulnerable and allowing someone else in so far they could hurt you, but they also give you everything.

We never can just stop time. Or take moments back. Life doesn't work that way, does it?

I made the decision fifteen years ago that you were my life. My everything. You were with me in my dreams my dark lover my friend and confidant.

She didn't know how to love, to give herself to someone, to out herself in someone else's keeping and take him into hers. She didn't trust anyone with her heart - or the darker places of her soul.

It's all well and good to look back after the fact and see what we should have done, but we rarely know what path is best when we take that first step.

Betrayal is never easy to handle and there is no right way to accept it.

If what he said was the truth, it broke her heart. If what he said was a lie, it was broken anyway.

In a world where thrushes sing and willow trees are golden in the spring, boredom should have been included among the seven deadly sins.

It's incredibly hard to program a network from scratch for 24 hours.

Just as the performance of the vilest and most wicked deeds requires spirit and talent, so even the greatest demand a certain insensitivity which under other circumstances we would call stupidity.

I shall make it my chief business to see that the [royal] executive power has its place in the constitution.

There are a lot of different things that are spinning and connecting when your family sees what you do.

New Zealand is a place where you can get well.

I am no dummy, mate, that's for sure.

You can't have a church run by people who don't believe in God.

If you want to study the social and political history of modern nations, study hell.

Cathy Clamp is a visionary author, creating new worlds that are both strong and vividly drawn. Adventure and excitement at its best.