Every girl wants to feel beautiful when they see 'that ex' again. You know the one I'm talking about. The one that had claimed enough of you that some of it had been lost in the parting.

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

I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigrees of nations.

—Samuel Johnson

True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.

—Charles Caleb Colton

He does not lose anything, for with the loss of himself he loses the knowledge of loss.

—Jack London in The Sea-Wolf

I guess every generation is doomed to fight its war,… suffer the loss of the same old illusions, and learn the same old lessons on its own.

—Philip Caputo

Character is what you have left when you've lost everything you can lose.

—Evan Esar