I prefer to scare myself in the ordinary ways, Daddy. Like letting my children cross the country for college. Why bungee jump when you can put a kindergartener on a school bus? Now, that's real terror.

Of course you can fall in love. You just have to let yourself. They don't call it falling for nothing. -Kate

It's not intentions that matter. It's actions. We are what we do and say, not what we intend to.

The heat made people crazy. They woke from their damp bedsheets and went in search of a glass of water, surprised to find that when their vision cleared, they were holding instead the gun they kept hidden in the bookcase.

From the first time we met, we knew everything that mattered about each other, didn't we? We just knew. I guess that's what best friends are: parts of each other.

If I have learned anything in this long life of mine, it is this: in love we find out who we want to be; in war we find out who we are.

Caro: "Bite me." Ruby: "I gave that up in kindergarten.