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

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

“...but it won't last," "Yes," he replied. "Yes it will. You're all I see, hear, or need in all the world.”

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

“In this convoluted world where sex has become a party favor rather than a solemn, beautiful part of love between two people, I think virginity is sexy. I don't like promiscuity. Oddly, at the turn of the 20th century, even men were expected to wait until marriage to indulge. I think that's sexy, too. Okay, I'm a dinosaur, I admit it. I don't belong in the modern world.”

“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.”

“I never knew how empty the world could be, how colorless, until I tried to live in it without you”