It was no coincidence, that fear could move a person to extremes, just as seamlessly as love. They were the conjoined twins of emotion: If you didn't know what was at stake to lose, you had nothing to fight for.

I always wondered why God was supposed to be a father," she whispers. Fathers always want you to measure up to something. Mothers are the ones who love you unconditionally, don't you think?

The hardest thing in the world is believing someone can change. It's always easier to go along with the way things are than to admit that you might have been wrong in the first place.

After a certain point, a heart with so many stress fractures can never be anything but broken.

Lawyers were notorious for finding cases in the most unlikely places, especially ones with huge potential damagers awards.

What she couldn't put into word was what had happened in between to change her from one person into the other

When we're awake, we see what we need to see. When we're asleep, we see what is really there.