I heard a sigh, as though the books were breathing. I felt that this was where I belonged. This was where I lived.

Only her death could prove her innocence; a circle of impossible, deathly judgement.

That's the way love sounds, my mother told me. You think it should feel like honey, but instead it cuts like a knife.

Pride is a funny thing; it can make what is truly worthless appear to be a treasure.

Mothers always find ways to fit in the work - but then when you're working, you feel that you should be spending time with your children and then when you're with your children, you're thinking about working.

Most people know that Ray Bradbury is one of my favorite authors.

No one knows how to write a novel until it's been written