One of the biggest motivations for me with writing my books is to offer girls some escapism, especially girls who really need it, like I did.

I've only been gone a week," I reminded him. Well, a week's a long time. It's seven days. Which is one hundred and sixty-eight hours. Which is ten thousand, eighty minutes. Which is six hundred thousand, for hundred seconds.

If kisses were what you were looking for, little fool, why didn't you come to me? quoted by Susannah Simon

I know. I seriously need to just give up men entirely. I wonder if Episcopalians can enter convents?

I stare at her, as dumbstruck as if she'd just admitted she's a Scientologist with an invitation to join Tom and Katie on the spaceship when it shows up.

he'd know that I think that . . . well, that bending an enemy's will through military force is the absolute last way a nation ought to go about solving their problems.

But things were different now. I finally had my head -pun intended- on straight.