Why was love so easy for some people and so hard for others?

Fate is the malevolent little jester sitting up in the heavens and pondering over how ridiculous we humans are and he does his best to make fools out of all of us. And sooner or later he succeeds.

... I discovered life sometimes has a way of giving you what you need, but not in the form you expect.

I think in a moment of weakness, you might surprise yourself.

A well-read woman is a dangerous creature.

I want to fill every part of you, breathe the air from your lungs and leave my handprints on your soul. I want to give you more pleasure than you can bear.

You are your own worst enemy. If you can learn to stop expecting impossible perfection, in yourself and others, you may find the happiness that has always eluded you.

He was my confidant, the person who was always on my side even when he wasn't taking my side.

Most men don't seem to get that telling a pissed-off woman to calm down is like throwing gunpowder on a fire.” ~ Liberty Jones

A couple of times in your life, it happens like that. You meet a stranger, and all you know is that you need to know everything about him.

I've always thought it was about finding the right person. But it's about choosing the right person, isn't it?

The decision is mine, and I choose happiness

I’m a realist, ” I said. “Lying and making promises about forever is almost as bad as one day at a time.

I always hesitate to say that something is lifelike.

The worst pain in the world is shame.

I see walking bombs on the street Hearts not beating, but ticking

Our visibility shouldn’t be subject to such extreme circumstances.

It happens; incompetence is rewarded more often than not.

Shame about how we’re gonna die here, though. I mean, seriously. An Arab and a half-Jew enter a store in Tennessee. It’s the beginning of a joke, and the punch line is “sodomy’’.

Books are the best friends you can have; they inform you, and entertain you, and they don't talk back.

I could ride away and hide away Where we were miles apart But when I got there I'd find you there Right in my heart