“Remember, you’re unique. And so is everyone else.”

“Accept that some days you’re the bug, and some days you’re going to be the windshield.”

“A new beginning done right," she said out loud, because everyone knew that saying it out loud made it true. "You hear that, karma?" She glanced upward through her slightly leaky sunroof into a dark sky, where storm clouds tumbled together like a dryer full of gray wool blankets. "This time, I'm gong to be strong." Like Katharine Hepburn. Like Ingrid Bergman ."So go torture someone else and leave me alone."A bolt of lightning blinded her, followed by a boom of thunder that nearly had her jerking out of her skin. "Okay, so I meant pretty please leave me alone."-Maddie”

“A conclusion is the place you get to when you’re tired of thinking.”

“He had threeincision sites: one where the microscopic camera had gone in andtwo where they’d done the actual work, and the abuse he’d takentoday went straight to her heart. “Oh, Pace.”“I’m guessing that wasn’t an ‘Oh, Pace, you’re so sexy, take me.’ ”

“I don’t want to scare the guests with a big old guard dog,” Tara protested.“Safety is far more important than worrying about what anyone else thinks,” Sawyer told her.“You’re right, of course.” Tara looked at her sisters. “We’ll think about both an alarm and a dog.”“We can borrow Izzy from Jax,” Maddie said.“Sure,” Tara said. “And she can lick the next bad guy to death.”

“You’re green. Tell me you have the flu.”“No.”“The shoulder?”“Yeah.”“Well, fuck me.”“I’d rather not.”