I have no desire to spend every night of the next few months at balls and soirées or drowning in tea with morning callers.

— Sarah M. Eden

I love you. It hurts more than anything ever has, but I do. So don't you dare tell me I don't. Don't you ever say it again!

— Jenny Downham

I'm not stalking her," I insisted." I'm making sure she's safe. Besides, how could you stalk Lori McGillicuddy? She'd see you and come out to your truck and say, "Hi, I'm Lori. Are you my stalker? It's so neat to meet you! While you're stuck here watching my every move, can I bring you anything? Sweet tea?

— Jennifer Echols

In Adam's fall - We sinned all.

— New England Primer

In a reality known as the garden of beautiful Eden, Adam is dreaming about his sinful children on earth. He is struggling to wake up from a terrible nightmare.

— Toba Beta

I need to explain all this to Adam in private. I can't get McGillicuddy to explain it to him. Something will be lost in translation."" Well, excuse me that I can't look at him all googly-eyed," my brother said." And he's liable to punch you," I said.

— Jennifer Echols

I stood like Adam in his lonely garden On that first morning, shaken out of sleep, Rubbing his eyes, listening, parting the leaves, Like tissue on some vast, incredible gift.

— Mary Oliver

It is a curious and painful fact that almost all the completely futile treatments that have been believed in during the long history of medical folly have been such as caused acute suffering to the patient. When anesthetics were discovered, pious people considered them an attempt to evade the will of God. It was pointed out, however, that when God extracted Adam's rib He put him into a deep sleep. This proved that anesthetics are all right for men; women, however, ought to suffer, because of the curse of Eve.

— Bertrand Russell

It's the fate of all creators: They fall in love with their creations.

— Michael Grant

It was complicated. I understood it, mostly, but I had to think a little sideways to do it.

— Patricia Briggs