“These women were like her sisters. Even if she wanted desperately to be free of them. Sometimes the strongest prisons were the ones created by the people you loved the most.”

“When you start to say to yourself, just one look back, just one glance, the danger will have begun for you.”

“Two people can be in the same room and still be gone.”

“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.”

“The one man you most want to sleep with may be the worst choice of all.”

“Ollie though how her daddy once said sometimes people do things out of ignorance more than meanness. That's what Ollie took this woman to be - ignorant of God's love more than mean-spirited towards others.”

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