Caroline Waverly: Sometimes we hurt more for what might have been than for what is.

You saved me, Eve." He watched her blink in absolute shock. "What you are, what I feel for you, what we are together saved me." He kept his eyes on hers as he kissed her.

I fear feeling my heart break a second time, because I'm not sure I could survive it. I'd rather live alone than risk the pain.

I don't believe for one moment you can write well what you wouldn't read for pleasure.

...If I don't have twenty or thirty books right here, waiting to be read, I start jonesing. That's my compulsion.

He'd done as he'd pleased and even had often enjoyed long runs of luck where he hadn't been caught. But the luckiest moment of his life had been being caught.

Love is not enough. But, it is the rock on which all else stands.