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It was one thing to make a mistake; it was another thing to keep making it. I knew what happened when you let yourself get close to someone, when you started to believe they loved you: you'd be disappointed. Depend on someone, and you might as well admit you're going to be crushed, because when you really needed them, they wouldn't be there. Either that, or you'd confide in them and you added to their problems. All you ever really had was yourself, and that sort of sucked if you were less than reliable.

Det er ingenting som provoserer en kvinne mer enn en annen kvinne. Det er ingenting som provoserer en kvinne som nærmer seg middagshøyden mer enn en ung kvinne som ikke skjønner at også hun en dag vil komme til å nærme seg middagshøyden.

All any of us wanted, really, was to know that we counted. That someone else's life would not have been as rich without us here.

Words, for all they were flimsy and invisible, had great strength. They could be fortified as a castle wall and as sharp as a foil. They could bite, slap, shock, wound. But unlike deeds, words couldn't really help you. No promise ever rescued a person; it was the carrying-through of it that brought about salvation.

As anyone who's ever contracted it knows, lies are an infectious disease. They slip under the almond slivers of your fingernails and into your bloodstream.

I'm smart enough to fall for someone who doesn't make my life a pain in the ass.

It was that he had the capacity to use force, like any other police officer - but instead, he'd trap you with kindness.

Cliches become cliches because they're true.

If two people have the same secret, it's not a secret anymore.

Happiness wasn't just what you reported; it was also how you chose to remember.

Economists, it was often said, knew the price of everything and the value of nothing.

If you hurt, cry. If you rage, strike out.
If you hope, get ready for a disappointment.

If you don't know what it feels like to love someone, how would you know what hate is? One can't exist without the other.

'Men. You can't live with them... and you can't legally shoot them,' Zirconia says. 'I tossed out my husband eight years ago and got a llama instead. Best decision I ever made.'

The real power of a wolf isn't in its fearsome jaws, which can clench with fifteen hundred pounds of pressure per square inch. The real power of a wolf is having that strength, and knowing when not to use it.

Mistakes are like the memories you hide in an attic: old love letters from relationships that tanked, photos of dead relatives, toys from a childhood you miss. Out of sight is out of mind, but somewhere deep inside you know they still exist. And you also know that you're avoiding them.