For me it's more important that I outline all the facets of a controversial issue and let the reader make up his or her mind. I don't care if readers change their minds, but I would like readers to ask themselves why their opinion is what it is.

If God wanted us to act on instinct, we wouldn't have the power of reason.

If you didn't remember something happening, was it because it never had happened? Or because you wished it hadn't?

true love is felonious… You take someone’s breath away… You rob them of the ability to utter a single word… You steal a heart.

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

Leave it to a man to mess things up

You live and let live, eventually that becomes enough.