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

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

“With every year that I grow older, I also draw closer to (my loved ones) to the day when we will once again be together. So I march through the deepening shadows, serene and unafraid, because I know that at the end of my journey they will be waiting for me.”

“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?”

“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.”