“Sometimes the butterflies were there just to make you queasy; sometimes the butterflies were there to let you know that something good was on its way”

“They were an odd pair- but odd pairs were what kept life interesting.”

“His eyes did not track when they were talking, and when he blinked, which wasn't often, she could count to three before his eyelids touched.”

“We make deals with the devil every day, metaphorically.”

“In a cruel and evil world, being cynical can allow you to get some entertainment out of it.”

“If there is cheesy packaging around a universal truth, does that make the universal truth inside any less valid?”

“Love, she thought, he'd typed "love" just as she had. A multifacedted word, love, there probably wasn't another word in this or any other language that had so many shades and degrees. She knew that he loved her and she loved him, just as she loved Adam and Adam loved her. But with love, theirs or his, it was always a question of degree, and what one was willing to do to express that degree.”