I’ve been happy alone and I’ve been unhappy without you. I never wanted to depend on anyone, or to let myself care so much I could be made unhappy. But I depend on you and I love you.

You can’t just hope for happy endings. You have to believe in them. Then do the work, take the risks.

It was a joint, which put it one slippery step up from a dive.

If you love someone, when it's the most real, the most important thing in your life, it's not enough to coast. You need to dig in those footers, start building on that base. You want something to last, you put your back into it.

Actually, I find it great fun to develop family series with lots of characters.

Sometimes I just want to gobble you whole, eat you alive. You're so gorgeous. You're so beautiful.

What did she say?" Eve asked when they got into the car. "Here's love, she said, to hold until next we meet and I give you more.