Sometimes to get what you want the most, you have to do what you want the least.

I didn't want to see her because it would make me feel better. I came because without her, it's hard to remember who I am.

Don't pay back in kind, pay back in kindness. If someone does wrong by you, do right by them.

Shelby believed that love was like a solar eclipse - breathtakingly beautiful, absorbing, and capable of rendering you blind. She had not necessarily gone out of her way to avoid a relationship, but she hadn't wanted on either. It was called falling in love for a reason - because, inevitably, you crashed at the bottom.

I am an activist. I have a really big pulpit with my fiction and I love knowing that I can make people think.

So much of marriage was implicit and nonverbal. Had I gotten so complacent I'd forgotten to communicate?

No, honestly, my mouth shouldn't be able to function unless my brain's engaged.