Best quotes from Mercy

You know it's never fifty-fifty in a marriage. It's always seventy-thirty, or sixty-forty. Someone falls in love first. Someone puts someone else up on a pedestal. Someone works very hard to keep things rolling smoothly; someone else sails along for the ride.

Traveling is all very well and good as long as you knew there is a place or person you can call home

If God wanted us to act on instinct, we wouldn't have the power of reason.

This was something she would keep hidden within herself, maybe in place of the knot of pain and anger she had been carrying under her breastbone...a security blanket, an ace up her sleeve. She might never use it, but she would always feel its presence like a swelling secret stone, and that way when she let go of the rage, she would not feel nearly as empty.

If you loved someone, really loved them, would you let them go?

You have everything," she said slowly, as if she were explaining the order of the world to a small child. "A family, a great job, a lot of people who look up to you. You've got a place to go home to." She smiled a little. "So go.

There's a lot of things you can't see if you aren't' looking.

There are some weapons you can't protect yourself against.

I once heard someone on a bus say that this guy had gotten under her skin. And it struck me as a remarkable thought - that someone would affect you so deeply they'd always be a part of you.

The way i see it, love is just a bigger, stickier form of trust.

How foolish it is to run away with a man who's already run away with someone else...