Heroism's just doing more than you want to do or think you can. Sometimes it's just doing the crappy things, the unhappy things other people won't do....It's not just jumping out of a plane onto a glacier ten thousand feet up because there's nobody else there to do it. It's getting out of bed in the morning when it seems like too much trouble.

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.

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

But when two people feel something, they ought to respect that enough to figure it out

Grudges are bridges with faulty spans. Falling off one is a lot more rewarding than getting stuck on the other side.

The vulnerability undid him even as the strength brought him pride. And the whole of her brought him love beyond the measuring of it. Of all he'd craved in his life, all he'd dreamed of having, all he'd fought to gain by fair means or foul, he'd never imagined having such such as she as his own. Never imagined himself the man he'd come to be because she was.

Memories are nice little possessions. As long as you don't ignore the present when you take them out to play.