Sometimes I think my whole life has been about holding on to you.

Writing is grunt work - you need to have self-motivation, perseverance, and faith... talent is the smallest part of it.

If you loved someone, really loved them, would you let them go?

The thing that most people didn't understand, if they weren't in his line if work, was that a rape victim and a victim of a fatal accident were both gone forever. The difference was that the rape victim still had to go through the motions of being alive.

But as he grew older, he learned that a word was a powerful thing. An insult didn't have to be shouted to bleed; a vow didn't have to be whispered to make you believe. Hold a thought in your head, and that was enough to change the actions of anyone and anything that crossed your path.

Until this moment, I had not realized that someone could break your heart twice, along the very same fault lines.

never trust a man who wears a pinkie ring. . . the only jewelry a guy should wear is a wedding band or a super bowl ring