A love like that makes you better, even if you lose it all, even if it was for one precious moment in your life, you can't be sorry that you had it.

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

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

—Victor Hugo

Unfortunately, there's no test of compatibility to see how couples will survive together, despite what they say on those online dating sites. There's always a risk you take when you agree to spend the rest of your life with someone.

—Jaci Burton in Taking a Shot

I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.… People think pleasing God is all God care about. But any fool living in the world can see it always trying to please us back.

—Alice Walker

Life is happening whether you embrace it or not. You need to let go of the past, the pain, whatever holds you back from having a bright life.

—S.L. Scott in Scorned

Can you imagine being forced to stay young forever, watching everyone you know die? How pointless would life seem if you saw that?

—Avery Williams in The Impossibility of Tomorrow