“desperate people can make themselves believe anything!”

“sometimes you see problems instead of opportunities!”

“except when he kissed her, when he touched her, he devoured her as if he could never-even if he lived a thousand lifetimes-get enough!”

“The most important thing in life is your family. There are days you love them, and others you don't. But, in the end, they're the people you always come home to. Sometimes it's the family you're born into and sometimes it's the one you make for yourself.”

“She was beginning to realize people could survive most things. Not because thy were brave or strong, but because there wasn't any choice.”

“I think perhaps love comes from finding someone you feel utterly comfortable with, someone who makes you comfortable with yourself. It's like...finding yourself, or maybe it's like finding the other part of yourself.”

“She had discovered early that what we want out of life can change; that the important thing is to learn to recognize or even simply just to admit what we really want, and then to have the courage to reach for it.”