“Oh, the miraculous energy that flows between two people who care enough...to take the risks of...responding with the whole heart.”

“If I have been of service, if I have glimpsed more of the nature and essence of ultimate good, if I am inspired to reach wider horizons of thought and action, if I am at peace with myself, it has been a successful day.”

“You care about me. We're in a room together, with a hundred other people, and you know ehre I am, who I'm talking to. We enjoy each other. We're a bit alike, but different enough. You see things in me that you don't see in your wife and you know, deep down, that if we had met in another time, when it wasn't impossible for anything to happen between us, that we could have had something. And you think it might have been spetacular. And you know you might be a different person if you were with me, and that scares the hell out of you. And when youve had a few drinks, you fancy the arse off me." (...)He gave her a little sideways smile. "Nearly right."She raised an eyebrow. God, this felt good. (...)"Just to be sure we're both clear on this, I'm about to kiss you, Lucy.”

“How is love between two people a sin? Love isn't about gender; it's about two souls uniting.”

“They're called cliches because they're true, you know. Besides, life is quite complicated enough...”

“Like sisters throughout time, whatever battles raged between them, it was always, always, all four of them against the rest of the world.”

“she was a person, jen, and people aren't perfect. and she wasn't perfect. and that's okay”