That's what falling in love really amounted to, your brain on drugs. Adrenaline and dopamine, oxytocin and serotonin. Chemical insanity, celebrated by poets.

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

She was the only woman in the homicide unit, and already there had been problems between her and another detective, charges of sexual harassment, countercharges of unrelenting bitchiness.

That's what falling in love really amounted to, your brain on drugs. Adrenaline and dopamine, oxytocin and serotonin. Chemical insanity, celebrated by poets.

Only the forgotten are truly dead.

Everything's a gamble, love most of all.

The best heroes in the world are the reluctant ones. Courage isn't fearlessness - it's acting in the face of fear.