I loved that it was about human relationships and then it was a mystery without falling into the trap of a thriller per se, because it pulled you in through people rather than through events or...

I don't even like to use the word relationship. I don't know what it means.

I have made it a rule of my life to trust a man long after other people gave him up, but I don't see how I can ever trust any human being again.

A bad manner spoils everything, even reason and justice; a good one supplies everything, gilds a No, sweetens a truth, and adds a touch of beauty to old age itself.

Loved with obsessive devotion, hated with barely controlled fury.

Praise is the only gift for which people are really grateful.

And if your friend does evil to you, say to him, "I forgive you for what you did to me, but how can I forgive you for what you did to yourself?"

I said, 'What's your problem?' Asshole. There was a question behind his question, and that shadow question was 'Do you want to dance?'

Poor men ... always make love better than those who are rich, because, having less to care about, and not being puffed up with their own consequence, they are not so selfish and think much more of the...

The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.

She didn't look at me and I didn't look at her. Some questions are so direct the only way to ask them is sideways.

Instantly, the pair fell to groping one other as if each had puffed the magic dragon at a rock concert in Woodstock.

Sometimes words ruin everything.

A curiosity . . . no, a need for a different kind of communion. One with people not of the mountain, but rather the outsiders of the Ridge. She couldn't explain the call of Angel Ridge. Women before...

Since we never get everything we want or need from our families, we look for sufficiency in surrogates.

No matter how close people get, they never reach each other. Including us now. Even now, there's a place where each of us is alone.

We cannot save everyone, can we? I said to her as we continued walking on our way. I turned my head back only to find the spot the beggar had occupied empty. Not everyone, she said. She took my hand...

How do you hate someone who pulled you from the brink of death, not once, but twice?

If a palmist grasp my palm, and look into it, without seeing a single line, what would he read?

If men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor hate.

That was when I learned that kindness could break a heart just as sure as meanness. The difference was the kindness made that broken heart softer. Meanness just made the heart want to be hard.

This might not mean much to you right now, but for what it's worth, I'll tell you. Maybe I know better than most. Life isn't black and white. People aren't either. Family, friends, lovers. It's all a...

Some people said beware of enemies. Some said beware of friends and some said beware of frenemies, but the most dangerous people are those that will hurt you and still play the victim.

My mother used to say that there are no strangers, only friends you haven't met yet. She's now in a maximum security twilight home in Australia.

I didn't have enough other people in my life to cover the loss of this many people at once. I didn't have spare aunties or cousins or grandparents. I didn't have backup. I didn't have insurance to...

Hard to trust honesty of inconsistent person.

It hurts when you realize you aren't as important to someone as you thought you were. Deep inside where nothing's fine, I've lost my mind.

You mustn't throw them away. Let me have them.

It is an incapacitating emotion one feels upon hearing the whispered words "I still love you" after deeply hurting that soul. Forgiveness isn't weakness. It is power.

Gerard turned away and ignored the cruelty of the meerkats, tore it from his mind. Lucretia needed a heart.