And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in masquerade.

That's the strange thing about being a mother: until you have a baby, you don't even realize how much you were missing one

Bleeding heart, he’d called her. Well. He should know. He’d been the first to rip it to pieces.

I once heard someone on a bus say that this guy had gotten under her skin. And it struck me as a remarkable thought - that someone would affect you so deeply they'd always be a part of you.

what made you happy once might not make you happy now.

for 100,000 (dollars), you [can] flatten a house with a wrecking ball. Imagine how much less it [takes] to destroy something than it [does] to build it in the first place.

If you don't know there's an alternative, you can't miss it