He smiled his best smile, the one that ruined me for every other smile in the world.

Lots of days, it just felt like the world had lost its color, and the only things that defined my life were the things I'd lost.

—R.K. Lilley in Lovely Trigger

I've found that often the quality you see in successful people is knowing when to take the initiative, and being quick about it. I've never sat around, waiting for someone to tell me to take charge. I just do it.

—R.K. Lilley in Bad Things

Some of the sweetest moments in life come from second chances.

—R.K. Lilley in Lovely Trigger

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.

—R.K. Lilley in Mr. Beautiful

Everyone should get to experience a love like that. That kind of love that makes us better people.

—R.K. Lilley in Grounded

Nature hasn't gone anywhere. It is all around us, all the planets, galaxies and so on. We are nothing in comparison.

—Bjork

I think sometimes we love so deeply, so profoundly, that anything else pales by comparison.

—Debbie Macomber in The Trouble with Angels

An alcoholic is someone you don't like who drinks as much as you do.

—Dylan Thomas

We Americans live in a nation where the medical-care system is second to none in the world, unless you count maybe 25 or 30 little scuzzball countries like Scotland that we could vaporize in seconds if we felt like it.

—Dave Barry