How could one person, who'd proven to be so inherently bad for me, so wrong, still be so utterly necessary for my happiness?
It wasn't fair.

With him being so charming, and so perfect, so heart-achingly beautiful, but tarnished in all of the right places, and in all of the ways that I understood so well, how could I not love him?

—R.K. Lilley in Mile High

I would love this man to the end of my days. I'd fallen too deep. Middle of the Pacific deep, with no land in sight. There was no going back. My heart was his forever.

—R.K. Lilley in Bad Things

I don't know how I even did it. Looking back from here, I have no idea where I found the strength to let you stay out of my life for so long.

—R.K. Lilley in Lovely Trigger

I'd be alone the rest of my life before I'd settle for less than a man that flat out adored me.

—R.K. Lilley in The Other Man

We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.

—Walter Savage Landor

My creed is this: Happiness is the only good. The place to be happy is here. The time to be happy is now. The way to be happy is to make others so.

—Robert Ingersoll

She felt happy these days, yet there was always an undercurrent of sadness just below the surface.

—Diane Chamberlain in The Lost Daughter

The sound of laughter is like the vaulted dome of a temple of happiness.

—Milan Kundera