Luck is luck ... What we do with it determines whether it's good or bad.

My own sense of family, where I came from and what I made for myself is an important part of my life.

I fear feeling my heart break a second time, because I'm not sure I could survive it. I'd rather live alone than risk the pain.

You spend your life getting walked on, you learn to recognize the tread.

Parker: She believed, absolutely, that each person, each heart, had a counterpart—had a mate. A rightness. She’d always believed it, and understood that unshakable belief was a reason she was good at what she did.

That was the biggest problem with getting used to someone, she thought. You were lonely when they weren't there.

Don't say hit and mountain in the same sentence.