Love meant jumping off a cliff and trusting that a certain person would be there to catch you at the bottom.

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.

I'm not going to tell a person how to think, don't believe in that. What I want to do, when I write these books, is just to say don't be so sure of yourself. Let me pull the carpet out from underneath you, and let's see if you can still find the footing.

Somewhere along the line, organized religion stopped being about faith, and started being about who had the power to keep the faith. You said that the purpose of religion was to bring people together. But does it, really? Or does it-knowingly, purposefully, and intentionally--break them apart?

The problem was , you never heard anyone say,"wow, check out the brain on that babe.

Her mouth is always on the verge of a smile. It makes her look like there's always something amazing she needs to tell me, even when it's just hello.

How do you walk into someone's life again after twenty-eight years? How do you pick up, when you were too young to know where you left off.