“Get used to it. Life doesn't give, it takes. Anything worth having is worth fighting for.”

“Women won't have total equality until men can get pregnant.”

“I've been noble since they took you to the hospital," he said through his teeth. "I'm tired of it. I don't eat, I don't sleep, I can't even work. I remember your voice moaning in my ear like the cry of the damned while I was having you," he bit off, bending to her mouth. "You couldn't get enough of me. You couldn't get close enough to me. Your face when I fulfilled you....I ache every time I think about it.”

“Think about what life will be like without me because I've already considered that question. And I've decided that no life at all would be better than living without you.”

“There are in life a few moments so beautiful,that even words are a sort of profanity.”

“Women are the cradles of life. What sort of man tries to break a cradle (Marc)”

“I think small towns are the closest to heaven you can get on earth. I'm glad that some other people, my wonderful readers especially, feel the same way I do.”