I think there are readers out there and I don't think the book is dead. And more importantly I don't think readers have to choose between literary and commercial fiction.

The real power of a wolf isn't in its fearsome jaws, which can clench with fifteen hundred pounds of pressure per square inch. The real power of a wolf is having that strength, and knowing when not to use it.

Something still exists as long as there's someone around to remember it.

I think we deserve a happily-ever-after." "If anyone ever did, it's us.

If history has a habit of repeating itself, doesn't someone have to stay behind to shout out a warning?

At home I was raped by a guy i thought I loved' Trixie said, because thats what it was to her and always would be.

A place like this wears down everything, and tolerance is no exception. In here, coexistence passes for forgiveness. You do not learn to like something you abhor; you come to live with it...You live and let live, and eventually that becomes enough.