“The most intimate feeling people can share is neither love nor hate, but pain.”

“We're all violent. Especially when it concerns the ones we love. They're intimately connected, love and hate.”

“Everything's a gamble, love most of all.”

“If you don't love him, if you don't even care about him, then seeing him now shouldn't be all that painful. Should it?”

“Ha! Kids! You have no idea what you put your parents through, either. Wait till you have your own, you'll see. That's when you'll know what it really feels like." .. "What what feels like?"..."Love," said Angela.”

“Sometimes, the stars line up, the gods smile, and love gets a fighting chance. Just a chance. That's all it can really hope for. No guarantees, no certainties”

“What Rizzoli thought, staring at her own image, was that she hated Elizabeth Hurley for giving women false hope. The brutal truth was, there are some women who will never be beautiful, and Rizzoli was one of them.”