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.

I've found out that falling in love doesn't have anything to do with time. It can take a year or an instant. It happens when it's ready to happen.

She was the only woman he was afraid he would beg for.

You bring the color and the life. It's a lucky man who is offered that color and life, and a wise one who values it.

He won't be one of those girlishly pretty men with curly gold hair...He'll be dark, dangerous, too. Brave, certainly, but not without flaws. I like my heroes human.

If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it.

I'd rather be screwed up with you than smooth with anybody else.