The smarter you are, the more reasons you have to be miserable.

The Travises who had survived were the most purely stubborn people on earth, the kind who relied on their backbones when their wishbones were broken.

...one can't avoid the storms and calamities of life, but one can at least find the right partner to face them with.

What are you going to call the place?" "I haven't decided yet. Carrington wants to call it Clippety-Do-Da or Hairway to Heaven . . . but I told her we have to be a little bit classier." "Julius Scissors," I suggested. "Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow," Jack joined in. Liberty covered her ears. "I'll go out of business in the first week.

One should make the best choice possible given the circumstances, and then avoid second-guessing for the sake of one's own sanity.

Because one day of something wonderful is better than a forever of nothing special.

Kev wasn't certain if he was surrendering to Win or to his own passion for her. Only that there was no more holding back. He would take her. And he would give her everything he had, every part of his soul, even the broken pieces.