You all right?" Diana let out a deep breath. "Ask me again when I'm not praying.

Okay. Look, why don't you take care of the half a million things you've been letting dangle in Roarke's Empire of Everything?" "Catchy title. I may use it one day.

Certainly the plagiarism, and dealing with the fallout of it, was the most difficult thing I've ever faced since I started writing.

If you tell me I'm sensible in addition to normal and wise, I'm going to punch you in the stomach.

Shannon: Only the living suffered. Only they were riddled with guilt and regret and unanswered questions.

Holding onto something that's gone only makes a sickness inside.

Nothing ever seems too bad, too hard or too sad when you've got a Christmas tree in the living room. All those presents under it, all that anticipation. Just a way of saying there's always light and hope in the world.