Sometimes, the stars line up, the gods smile, and love gets a fighting chance. Just a chance. That's all it can really hope for. No guarantees, no certainties

We are not as impervious as we think we are. - Dr Maura Isles

I know there’s evil in the world, and there always has been. But you don’t need to believe in Satan or demons to explain it. Human beings are perfectly capable of evil all by themselves.

The one man you most want to sleep with may be the worst choice of all.

Even divorce, she thought, cannot erase all the bonds forged by years of marriage. Long after the papers are signed, decrees notarized, the ties still remain. And the most powerful tie of all is written in a child's flesh and blood.

The most dangerous enemy in the world is the one you do not recognize.

The heart makes its choices without weighing the consequences. It doesn't look ahead to the lonely nights that follow.