I won't consider getting horizontal with someone I can barely tolerate when we're vertical.

Up to this point your life has pretty much sucked. You’re not responsible for that. But you are responsible for what happens from here on.

Phillip look into Ray's eyes. He saw compassion and hope. And he saw himself mirrored back, bleeding in a dirty gutter on a street where life was worth less than a dime bag. Sick, tired, petrified, Phillip dropped his head into his hands. "What's the point?" "You're the point, son." Ray ran his hand over Phillip's hair. "You're the point.

You're the love of my life. I don't care how corny that sounds. You're the start of it, and the end of it. And you're the best of it.

We're all victims of what life deals out. It's how we handle it that's important.

Roarke "I'll drop you." Eve "No, better I catch a cab or take the underground. This guy sees me show up in a hot car with a fancy piece behind the wheel, he's not going to like me." Roarke "You know how I love being referred. to as your fancy piece." Eve "Sometimes you're my love muffin.

A writer never finds the time to write. A writer makes it. If you don't have the drive, the discipline, and the desire, then you can have all the talent in the world, and you aren't going to finish a book.