Love doesn't come along too often. Believe me, I know. When it does, only the foolish let it fade.

Sometimes things don't work out and the reason has nothing to do with you, or how good you are.

—H.M. Ward in The Wedding Contract

Sometimes it's better to hold onto what you have, rather than risk what might be.

—H.M. Ward in Demon Kissed

If you do what you've always done, you get what you've always gotten. If you want something different, then make something different.

—H.M. Ward in Secrets Vol. 4

Being normal is overrated. Normal gets you what—the dolt husband with the 2.5 kids and the house with the dog?

—H.M. Ward in Damaged

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.

—R.K. Lilley in Lovely Trigger

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