Why is it you think you'll live forever and why do you want to, I'd like to know, when you deny yourselves so many of the basic pleasures in life?

I do not feel obliged in my reading. I read to be entertained and to relax, and to go into another world, not because it's good for me.

The security officer smiled and said, ‘Good afternoon, ma’am,’ to me before I gave him ID.” “It’s a sick world, Eve.” He resisted taking her hand for another squeeze. “A sick, sad world.

The most important thing in writing is to have written. I can always fix a bad page. I can't fix a blank one.

She, as no other ever could, reached every corner of his heart. His joy, and his salvation.

Survivors lived with their mistakes.

Pretending the past doesn't exist is as bad as living in it.