Quotes from Heather Graham

Don't cry about what you see that you don't like, work at it.

You must grow strong. Pain must never cause pain.

If he ever changes his stance on something, it's because he's received new information.

Lie really could be construed as the art of illusion by some people.

That's like a fairy-tale princess in a patrol car, huh? But hey, even, Disney princesses are toughening up these days. We're all capable of many things, right?

Men corrupted religion; and a man's religious choice didn't matter in the least if it was his path to decency and remembering his fellow man.

living or dead, it's always people that haunt the living!" Mae said

God is my witness, Christ is my judge, life is to live, and living, love.

Actually, Jake said, isn't life what we make it, wherever we are, whenever we may be - wherever it is that we are?

the greatest agony on earth didn't lie in the pain of living or the pain of death, but in the pain of separation that haunted the heart and soul?

speak. But he lost his job, he was so ill so often

Miss Cameron, you are quite something, you know. Marriage doesn't mean a damn thing to you. You don't, in the least, mind selling your own soul for Cameron Hall. But what of mine? What if I were in love with someone?

Oh, no, Captain! Keep your distance. You don't play fair." He shook his head suddenly. "No, Kiernan, you're the one who doesn't play fair.

I do love you, Jesse, so much. And once it worried me, that I could love a Yankee so thoroughly, so desperately, so completely. But a friend told me something once. He said that I don't love a Yankee, I love a man. And I do, Jesse, I love you. And the color that you wear can't change the man that you are. I love that man.

Let's pretend that I am a soldier, going off to your own cause. That you will pine away the hours that I am gone. That you will love me now with all your heart and soul, touch me to remember me, in all the long days that will come to pass.

tried to make her understand that she couldn't control other people, only her own reaction to them.

to believe in one's dreams is to spend all of one's life asleep.

Yes, you are a survivor! No one fights so damned well, Christa. Had you just been in the damned field, Grant would have never stood a chance of taking the Rebs. I'm sure the goddamned Indians would be quaking in their buckskins if they knew you were coming.

Kiernan, I love you. I am the man for you, the only one to know you and to love you. But you won't rule me. Do you understand? I'd give you everything that I can give you, but there are certain things that I cannot give. When you're ready to accept me for what I am, for what I believe, come to me.

Lady, you forced me into this. You were willing to sell everything, both of our souls, for Jesse's house. Well, we saved it. Jesse will come back to claim it. But you forced me to be a husband. Now, Mrs. McCauley, I'm afraid that I'm going to have to force you to be a wife!

Now, please make sure that you keep your very sweet and honorable derriere indoors tomorrow!

If he can't kiss you like this, Kiernan, don't marry him.

Don't wait for him, angel. Not unless he can do better than that.

There were you and Serena, and everything about the two of you was perfect, and so life took a brutal swing at you.