Never trust people who smile constantly. They're either selling something or not very bright.

We hate most in others what we dislike in ourselves.

Sometimes it's not the optimist you need, but another pessimist to walk beside you.

She should have remembered that people have given everything they own, everything they are, to be taken care of, and to have their pain gone. It's the lure of cults: the promise of a good family; it's what people think love is, but love isn't absence of pain, it's a hand to hold while you're going through it.

You fight so hard, so long, to cut someone out of your heart, but it’s not always your heart that betrays you.

I'd made sure I knew his name. You shouldn't ask people to die for you if you don't at least know their name.

I had been downright paranoid all afternoon, aware of everyone near me. By the time I went for the car, my neck and shoulders were knotted into one painful ache. The most frightening thing I'd seen all afternoon had been the prices on the designer clothing.