“When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.”

“Much better now. And Sunny—there's no such thing as 'too much' when it comes to us. Too much mutual interest, or awareness, or desire, or too much damn love—there's no such thing.""I love you beyond obsession," I murmur, terrified because it is too much."I love you to insanity," he replies, utterly solemn. "That's who I am, and that is who we are. I don't have any qualms about admitting it, and I don't have any regrets. Do you?”

“...because when people have seen you at their worst, you don't have to put on the mask as much.”

“I have passed the period of a woman's life when as a woman she is loved; but I have have not outlived the power of loving.”

“You have the power within you to create the life you love.”

“When you introduce things that most readers have never seen before into a piece of fiction, you have to describe them with as much precision and in as much detail as possible. What you can eliminate from fiction is the description of things that most readers have seen.”