"He put the phone away and pondered what his Match might look like, before deciding it was inappropriate to be thinkin…"

"The decor of her office was as sparse as her home, she realized. It said nothing about her. But when you didn’t care …"

"“Like John Lennon said, ‘All You Need Is Love.’” “Yes, but he also said, ‘I Am The Walrus,’ so let’s not hold too muc…"

"Enough bullets had hit Ellie over the years to know when a writer was about to take aim."

"They say you can’t miss what you’ve never had, but that’s not true."

"It seemed incredible to him that people were stupid enough to store their entire life on five inches of plastic for a…"

"One day I was thinking about a conversation I’d had with my sister Maggie about why she married her husband, John. Sh…"

"Don’t worry. The only skeletons in my closet belong to the mice."

"He was an addiction she didn’t want to be free of. And the more she had of him, the more she craved."

"“I am worth more than this, Mark,” she snapped. “And if that doesn’t sink into your head pretty bloody soon, it’s goi…"