remember that every fire will burn itself out, even without your help.

I knew what it was like to lose someone you loved. You didn't get past something like that, you got through it.

I had absolutely no trauma in my childhood. If anyone ever assumed that my books were autobiographical, they'd be sorely disappointed, because none of these things happened to me.

you can love a person and still hate the decisions they've made, can't you?

You can stay up all night and still not count all the ways to lose the people you love.

love doesn't follow the rules... nothing is worth having so much as something unattainable.

But Katie knew it was a sin, had known from the moment she made the decision to lie with Adam. However, the transgression wasn't making love without the sanction of marriage. It was that for the first time in her life, Katie had put herself first. Put her own wants and needs above everything and everyone else.