“That, my dear, is what makes a character interesting, their secrets.”

“People marveled at her ability to build characters from the inside out, to submerge herself and disappear beneath the skin of another person, but there was no trick to it; she merely bothered to learn the character's secrets. Laurel knew quite a bit about keeping secrets. She also knew that was where the real people were found, hiding behind their black spots.”

“Oh, Grey, no one really likes keeping secrets. The only thing that makes a secret fun is knowing that you weren't supposed to tell it.”

“It hardly needs to be said: sooner or later secrets have a way of making themselves known.”

“For it is said, you know, that a letter will always seek a reader; that sooner or later, like it or not, words have a way of finding the light, of making their secrets known.”

“You make a life out of what you have, not what you're missing.”

“It's a funny thing, character, the way it brands people as they age, rising from within to leave its scar.”