Ironically, now that my children are older and gone quite a bit, I find it harder to work when they're not around. Too much free time!

Love is worth the sum of itself, and nothing more.

I think we are bound to, and by, nature. We may want to deny this connection and try to believe we control the external world, but every time there's a snowstorm or drought, we know our fate is tied to the world around us

Feel lucky for what you have when you have it. Isn't that the point? Happily ever after doesn't mean happy forever.

Being human means losing everything we love best in the world," she murmured as she released me. "But would you ask to be anything else?

When I write for teens, I feel I can cut through everything and get to the bare bones. I can get straight into the emotional world of the character.

The adults don't know what's happening on the kids' universe and the kids don't know what's happening on the adults' universe