“Most of us, are stuck in one dimension that life is our work than waking up and walking out to see a whole new world out there, a new life, no one ever saw.”

“Stone cold stops the heart, it's the love that warms us.”

“A house is spotless, but a home is messy filled with people who live there.”

“Leaning forward he placed his lips over hers. She told herself he was breathing life into her, but the truth was he'd always been sucking it out, slowly, one breath at a time. - From ENGRAVED”

“It wasn't that Ginger had messed me up. I realized that most guys would have been grateful. But she had taken some not small thing from me. Nadia was fifteen and she wanted to have sex. I wanted to do her this favor. Hoped that I wouldn't mess her up for life. We were all pretending we knew what we wanted to do with our bodies.”

“What good is a quilt if it's unused? The same as a life unused. They're meant to be wrung out and frayed around the edges. That's the way of things. Always has been. Always will be. ”

“The one thing that I know about life, is that it doesn't always go as planned. What you do about it, is what makes you who you are.”