Trouble is just like love, after all; it comes in unannounced and takes over before you've had a chance to reconsider, or even to think.

Young people believe that regret is something you will never feel if you simply do as you please, but sometimes it is a matter of degree.

Women know things that men will never know. We keep the best secrets. We tell the best stories.

The grass he walked through was new and a sweet smell clung to his clothes. There was blue dye on his hands from the wild irises... that the color of the sky was a shade that could never be replicated in any photograph, just as Heaven could never be seen from the confines of Earth.

What was a rose but the living proof of desire, the single best evidence of human longing and earthly devotion. but desire could be twisted,after all, and Jealousy was the name of the rose that did well in arid souls.

Burn me. Drown me. Tell me lies. I will still be who I am.

I love science fiction but especially his because it's so humane.