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

Parenthood is nothing but doubts.

What Rizzoli thought, staring at her own image, was that she hated Elizabeth Hurley for giving women false hope. The brutal truth was, there are some women who will never be beautiful, and Rizzoli was one of them.

Death does not discriminate; whether saints or sinners, in the end, all are equal.

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

The Christmas tree, twinkling with lights, had a mountain of gifts piled up beneath it, like offerings to the great god of excess.

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