If there's one thing I hope people are certain of it's this: I'm looking out for YOU - the taxpayer.
Adventure ... is what might otherwise be called hardship if it were attempted in a different spirit.
He was always my moon, my stars, my world. 
Dreams would always end with you, and then mornings would steal you away with a cruelty that haunted my days. 
Deep down, we're all some kind of crazy, Ada. 
There is so much chaos and dysfunction going on with the federal government that Dallas can't wait any longer for federal help. 
Fire will burn any human body it touches, and starvation will waste it, but stories are not so predictable in their effects. 
Writers would be warm, loyal, and otherwise terrific people-if only they'd stop writing. 
Don't count him out, Julia. He hasn't given up on you. 
I'll find my way back to you, Brooke Sommerfield. As sure as the sun is gonna rise in the mornin', I'll find you, I whisper into the wind. - River 
Tracking the shiny is so much easier than digging for gold! 
I just want her to know that she's still beautiful, after all these years, and that I'm here - always, 
Say: If you want to know where your heart is, look to where your mind goes when it wanders. 
I just want you to know that I love you with everything I am - a million times a million and to the moon and back. 
Dallas is a great city, and it's worth fighting for. 
Just remember, the single most important thing in this world is love. You find it, you fight for it. 
Remember when life gives you a hundred reasons to cry, show life that you have a thousand reasons to smile. 
When you really love someone, you don't let them go - mostly, because you can't. Nature won't allow it. But also, because you just don't. 
The first book we fall in love with shapes us every bit as much as the first person we fall in love with ... 
I'll save a spot for you on the hood of my truck. 
I gave him a piece of my heart a long time ago, and once you give that away, I've learned you don't so easily get it back. 
Others like City Hall the old way, when they could make deals behind closed doors with your tax money. 
I have to know if you believe in second chances - because I do, even if they do come with good-byes. 
People like to complain about the state of contemporary literature, but I can only assume they don't read it very widely. 
She tries to wear her pain on the inside. She always has. It's the trademark of the oldest sibling, I think. 
Maybe we knew each other in another life. Or maybe we were just meant to find each other in this one. 
Of all the butterflies that chose to stay, I'm in love with the one that got away.
Maybe everything really does just have an expiration date - one that you can't see until she tells you she's leaving, and then she's gone. 
If we weigh the significance of a book by the effect it has on its readers, then the great children's books suddenly turn up very high on the list. 
But no, Sir, to answer your question. I'm taken, and I have been since I was sixteen, Will confessed 
When life gives you a hundred reasons to cry, show life that you have a thousand reasons to smile.Laura Miller - Butterfly Weeds
Every small town that I had ever been to had had a caboose. 
Brooke was always my summer. She'll always be my summer. And I had already made my choice a long time ago. Loving Brooke was what I was made to do. 
There is a perfect someone, even if the road to that someone isn't all that perfect. 
We get used to pretty ... eventually, we get used to sunsets and falling stars and things that sparkle. 
We have but one dance to a lifetime of songs. 