"Excuse me? Tonight you represent every dateless woman in this city, every woman who's about to sit down to a lonely meal of Weight Watchers past primavera she's just nuked in the microwave. Every woman who will get into bed tonight with a book or reruns of Sex and the City as her only companion. You are our shining hope....But no pressure."
— Nora Roberts (High Noon)

"Don't answer the door in a wedding dress and veil, he might not think you're joking."
— Amy Sedaris (I Like You: Hospitality Under the Influence)

"I sound contemptuous, but I am not. I am interested--intrigued even--by the way time erases real lives, leaving only vague imprints. Blood and spirit fade away so that only names and dates remain."
— Kate Morton (The House at Riverton)

"Dates are convenient hooks on which we can hang our memories of events. But history is all about people - people like you and me who did things to change the world."
— Joan Lowery Nixon (Nightmare)