I have come to realize you can never be truly happy unless you've known some sorrow.

If I listened to your advice, I'd be making your mistakes instead of my own.

I always counsel aspiring novelists that passion is the most important quality for a writer to possess - technique can be taught, but that relentless desire to write has to come from within.

She wanted him to stop, but more than that, she wanted him to go on forever.

Oh, Daisy, it's revolting the way I want to fawn all over him. I'm afraid I'm going to do something dreadfully silly today. Burst into song or something. For God's sake, don't let me.

I no longer believed in the idea of soul mates, or love at first sight. But I was beginning to believe that a very few times in your life, if you were lucky, you might meet someone who was exactly right for you. Not because he was perfect, or because you were, but because your combined flaws were arranged in a way that allowed two separate beings to hinge together.

I love you enough for the both of us. And there must be something about me worth loving. If you would just try.