“Crying and pain, there all inside usHappiness and smiles, we can all show it.Love, everyone is capable of doing.”

“When you forgive, you are letting your anger go but you never forget what happened. When you forget, you push it all away pretending it never happened at the same time the pain and anger is held inside, unforgotten.”

“God, she was convinced, would look the other way. It was Christmas after all.”

“The fact that the Constitution is sufficiently open-ended to infuriate all Americans almost equally is part of its enduring genius.”

“I wonder which one of us is more despicable.Is it the person relentlessly chasing after love or the person desperately holding it captive? We wrapped each other in vines of thorns so that we could watch each other’s heart bleed to the last drop, only there can be no end for creatures of eternal darkness. How much longer must you watch me bleed?”

“I think men get nervous when women start counting the number of female senators, and whites become edgy when they hear the next Supreme Court seat will probably go to a Latino. This isn't always because they object to sharing the spoils, by the way; it just reminds us that the melting pot may not be working, and we haven't yet achieved the ambiguous national dream of becoming a nation of indistinguishable beige atheists.”

“Settle for nothing less than the greatest love below Heaven and Above hell.”