Be nice first, because you can always be mean later, but once you’ve been mean to someone, they won’t believe the nice anymore.

There comes a point when you just love someone. Not because they're good, or bad, or anything really. You just love them. It doesn't mean you'll be together forever. It doesn't mean you won't hurt each other. It just means you love them.

—Laurell K. Hamilton in Incubus Dreams

Nothing is more appealing than a handsome man who is uncertain of himself.

—Laurell K. Hamilton in Guilty Pleasures

That’s what you get for telling the truth. Someone calls you a liar. Most people will accept a likely lie to an unlikely truth.

—Laurell K. Hamilton in Guilty Pleasures

I guess I just realized how everything we do affects not only our lives, but people around us, too. It sucks that one weak moment could change the entire course of someone's life.

—Cindi Madsen in All the Broken Pieces

People treat you with as much, or as little respect as you allow them to.

—Rachel Hollis in Party Girl

That's when I first learned about true frustration, that wrenching ache when the thing that matters most to you barely makes a ripple in other people's lives.

—Robin Benway in Emmy & Oliver

But you were like a drug. When I was high on you, nothing else mattered.

—Jill Santopolo in The Light We Lost

He was my crack. I could never get enough, and when I had him I was already thinking about when I could have him next.

—Tarryn Fisher in The Opportunist