people were just out of control! . . . They've all got cell phones stuck to their ears and yet I've never seen such distance between people trying so hard to be close.

Like is an emotion. Emotions”—he raised a hand, made a fist, clenched it tightly—“are like holding water. You open your hand, there’s nothing there. Better to be a weapon than a woman.

The single greatest advantage anyone can take into any battle is hope.

Hours later, Adam propped himself up on an elbow and stared down at Gabrielle, pondering what made beauty. He thought he was beginning to understand. It wasn't symmetry of features; it wasn't perfection. It was uniqueness. That which one person had that no other possessed. That which was only their own.

Life is not black and white. The closes we ever get to either of those colors is wearing them.

There should be a vaccine against Adam Black. And all women should be given it at birth.

One day you will kiss a man you can't breathe without, and find that breath is of little consequence.