“Needing someone doesn't make you weak, it makes you feel. And feeling is how you know you're alive. -Jack Reacher”

“‎"As Oedipus learned, the more you run away from what is predetermined the more you run toward it.”

“I know depression is anger turned inward.”

“Is there a secret? Yes. Anaïs Nin and Pauline Réage and Anne Rampling and Erica Jong all knew it. E. L. James knows it.It is the secret behind all of our writing. And our reading. Arousal starts in the mind. And grows in the mind. The brain is the most erogenous zone in a woman’s body. That is our secret. And it is what we share.”

“Freedom is just another word for being alone”

“Sometimes love worked out, but more often it failed”

“There is no glory in honesty if it is destructive. And no shame in dishonesty if its goal is to offer grace.”