I feel as if when you love a book it becomes a part of you whether you have it on your shelves or not.

Sally...can no longer think of love as a reality, or even as a possibility, however remote.

I feel more influenced in my own work by dreams than I do by other writers' works in a way. Or by popular culture, movies - what else is there to write about than love and loss?

Do what you want, do what you will, do what you have to, do what you think you cannot.

Outside, the September air was enticingly fragrant, yellow with pollen and rich, lemony sunlight.

Emily Brontë's "Wuthering Heights" was extremely important to me.

He'd thought he was lost, but now he recognized that eternity was around him, like salt from a shaker or stars in the sky.