News flash, Fern Taylor!" Ambrose barked, slamming his hand against the dashboard, making Fern jump. "Everything has changed! You are beautiful, I am hideous, you don't need me anymore, but I sure as hell need you!""You act like beauty is the only thing that makes us worthy of love," Fern snapped. "I didn't just l-love you because you were beautiful!" She'd said the L word, right out loud, though she'd tripped over it.

Everybody is a main character to someone

Regret is just life's aftertaste.

Sometimes a beautiful face is false advertising

Books allow you to be whoever you want to be, to escape yourself for a while.

There isn't heartache if there hasn't been joy. I wouldn't feel loss if there hadn't been love.

Everybody who is somebody becomes nobody the moment they fail