We were drifting apart. I felt helpless to stop the pattern, but still, I held onto him for dear life.

How can we be so good for each other in so many ways, and so bad in just as many others?

—R.K. Lilley in Lovely Trigger

Having this, and losing it, made it even sweeter the second time around.

—R.K. Lilley in Lovely Trigger

Love doesn't let you walk away clean. Love is messy. Love takes a piece of you before it's done.

—R.K. Lilley in Lovely Trigger

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

—R.K. Lilley in Bad Things

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

A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind.

—Lewis Mumford

I will do my best. That is all I can do. I ask for your help—and God's.

—Lyndon B. Johnson

Nothing anybody tells you about marriage helps.

—Max Siegel

I just don't know… how do you help someone who doesn't want your help. What do you do when you can't do anything?

—Sarah Dessen in Lock and Key

We are here to help each other get through this thing, whatever it is.

—Mark Vonnegut