“She’s a tornado in a tank top leaving wreckage in her wake.”

“When does infidelity begin, Rachel wondered as she crossed the park at lunch time on her way for the afternoon shift at work. Does it start with a word? A look? A touch? When does it become too late to remain a faithful wife?”

“It is harder, usually, to find a person who wants to walk the streets of me, to taste the teas of my country, to… immigrate, you could say.”

“This is what we do. Not so much argue as joust, in jest. We can’t stop pushing and pulling the taffy of words and concepts.”

“Jack hadn’t thought of love as a promise before—a promise that, even when the world was falling down around him, would stay kept. But without Sutton saying a word, he knew that there would be comfort when he couldn’t sleep tonight. And tomorrow and the day after, there would be a home to go to, even if it was no more than a pair of arms around him and a head tucked close to his in the darkness.”

“When women are secret they are secret indeed; and more often then not they only begin to be secret with the advent of a second lover.”

“He offered her power, money, status…a giant prison, all in exchange for only…her soul.”

“I know you think I’m crazy. Maybe that’s because I am. About life, about this moment, about you.”

“You can only trust your emotions as you can lie to yourself with your brain but not your heart.”

“Better not to invent her in her absence. Better to wait until she’s actually here. Then he can make her up as she goes along.”

“He was everything your mother warned you about when she told you not to walk alone in the dark.”

“Love falls in love with love; comes like an echo sounding back, searches its mirrored shadow within a look. ”

“A soul mate is not found. A soul mate is recognized.”

“My grief were thoroughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together! For now it would be heavier than the sand of the desert.”

“The danger of prolonged despair is its tendency to cloud the gift of a new beginning that every tomorrow offers. –Anissa’s Redemption”