She had discovered that the best remedy for heartache was trying to make herself useful to others.

Asking an eight-year-old girl if something is a little over-the-top is like asking a Texan if there are too many jalapenos in the salsa. The answer is always no." -Liberty Jones

Tell me everything, I would say. All about the blues, and the time your heart was broken, and what scares you the most, and the thing you've always wanted to do but haven 't yet.

The situation was extraordinary. How someone like Evangeline Jenner could have wrought such a change in St. Vincent, the most worldly of men, was difficult to understand. However, Westcliff had learned that the mysteries of attraction could not always be explained through logic. Sometimes the fractures in two separate souls became the very hinges that held them together.

No marriage stays in the same pattern forever. It is both the best feature of marriage and the worst, that it inevitably changes.

Sometimes life has a cruel sense of humor, giving you the thing you always wanted at the worst time possible.

I have always hated flying. The idea of it is an affront to nature. People are meant to stay on the ground.