"If you let life pass you by now, it won't ever come back. You don't get another chance"

"Her writing was her only escape, her only means of survival. It was a respite from a cruel world, despite seemingly comfortable surroundings."

"Not all forms of abuse leave bruises."

"It's like some people just come through our lives to bring us something, a gift, a blessing, a lesson we need to learn, and that's why they're here..."

"We are always better than before when those we love inflict wounds upon us."

"There's a lid for every pot... You Just have to find yours. -Avery"

"Victoria heard across the wedding reception dance floor "You're loveable"!"

"When you can bring yourself to write about it one day, you will find it all less painful. It is a catharsis of sorts, but the process can be brutal. Don’t do it until you’re ready."

"For the moment, my life is a little schizophrenic."

"They just had to be patient. Destiny would bring them what they needed, yet again."

"What’s ready? Was Steinback ready? Hemingway? Shakespeare? Dickens? Jane Austen? They just did it, didn’t they?"

"Who doesn't need hope in their lives: hope that something can change, that someone cares, that not only bad things happen unexpectedly but good things can happen to us too?"

"But even she had figured out that there was no point giving up a great job and following him to the ends of the earth, when he simply refused to make any promises about, or even discuss, the future."

"You can have anything you want, if you go out and get it. If you claim it as your own. You have a right to it."

"Somehow you drift along on the river, and one day you wake up and you’re someplace you don’t want to be, with someone you realize you don’t know."

"I don't just want to catch some guy and have a bunch of kids. I want to make something of myself."

"Love is a shooting star that lands in your heart, and lives forever."

"I love you and I will until the end of time.And just as she said the words, two bright stars drifted past them overhead and disappeared into the night sky together…"

"Nothing is irreversible except dying."

"I'd love to be a writer one day"

"She wasn't on heroin then, but she was a mess. I thought I was going to put Humpty Dumpty back together and turn her into a princess. Instead, she turned into scrambled eggs, and always was"

"Actually, being married to me probably would be something of a joke . . . but yeah, I mean it. What do you think?"

"Can a recovering alcoholic and a nun be happy together? Stay tuned."

"Everett thought about it for a minute before he answered. "I go on with my life. I keep coming to meetings. And I love her forever."

"Love is a shoot star that lands in your heart, and lives forever."

"A man who really likes you and cares about you won’t care about your weight one way or another."

"Five minutes …five days …and a lifetime forever changed in a single moment."

"Together they were more than they each were alone. They didn’t take away from each other, they added all that they were."

"Time she decorated the nursery in neutral"

"I don't want to make a mistake and marry the wrong woman. I'd rather be alone."

"Smoke a cigar. Sophie had heard him come in and found him there. She was surprised he"

"But neither of them seemed"

"Life and death; A Gift of Hope, a memoir"

"Yesterday's happenings are the reasons of Today's situation."

"Followed her outside, deeply moved."

"Anything interesting to save my life, just"

"Seemed silly to Faith. And offensive"

"All rights reserved. No part of this book may"

"I never wanted to settle for ‘good enough.’ I wanted ‘great’ or nothing."

"I had learned firsthand that tragedy and disappointment can strike any of us at any time."

"Motherhood is not for the faint-hearted. Frogs, skinned knees, and the insults of teenage girls are not meant for the wimpy."

"That way, the models would be"

"It's unfortunate that the entire country is a racist country.We're living in a country that discriminates, and has certain racist tendencies."

"Even if one doesn't smoke pot, one has to see the benefits of decriminalizing it."

"We did 'Erin Brockovich,' we did 'Man on the Moon,' we did 'Living Out Loud,' but now I'm going to keep going."

"So, you pick this stuff here and this stuff there and then you see things in certain ways and you start visualizing and thank God I get the chance to do this. It's really the greatest thing in the whole wide world."

"I'm always studying and I've been doing it for a long time now."

"I love going to all kinds of movies, I screen DVDs in my house, but I go to the theatre a lot in the afternoon. I don't get bugged because there aren't many people around."

"What do you call 500 lawyers lying on the bottom of the Ocean? A good start."

"I climbed like a billion stairs... its not like I can take them two at a time."