“Even within the dark paint on a canvas, and the shadows in a photograph, there is light.”

“it was like trying to see a shadow in the dark.”

“What does it mean when nightmares dream of peace? When shadows wish for light?”

“If you tell someone you're divorced they don't even blink, but tell them you've never been married and they wonder what's wrong with you.”

“Bullfrak," Miranda said. "It's for power. If you're pretending this is about something else, even to yourself, then frak you, you delusional murdering excuse for a nutty professor.”

“love is undying,of that I feel certain.I mean deep,abiding,cherishing love.The love that gives protection even as you,my guardian angel,gave me protection long after you had gone-and continue to give this very day...A love beyond Death-a love that makes Life alive!”

“She had no doubt the man would kill her. Stupid things went skating through her mind--she'd never told her mother how much she loved her chocolate cupcakes... or Felicia what a kind friend she'd been... or Keith that it was cool and mature that he owned a house, even if it was in Brooklyn.”