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.

How can you be a survivor, when you can't even remember the war?

Dylan Jerome," the lawyer admits, "wanted to sue God for not caring enough about him.

You can't win. Either you have the baby and wear your pain on the outside, or you don't have the baby, and you keep that ache in you forever

She wanted him to tell her that when you love someone so hard and so fierce, it was all right to do things that you knew were wrong.

Ross was a firm believer that you could not force circumstance. You could buckle your seat belt, but still crash the car. You could throw yourself in front of an oncoming train, but somehow survive. You could wait for years to find a ghost, and then have one sneak up on you when you were too busy falling in love with a woman to pay attention. To that end, he made the conscious decision to stop waiting for Lia. When he least expected her, that was when she would show up.

I know that the first person I kissed won't be nearly as important as the last person I kiss.