Certain things need not be said, and there’s nothing, not a whisper, prayer, not a sacrifice, not a payment of any price, that would change what’s about to happen.

How could I have been so stupid to ignore everything I’d had in my life? The color red alone was worth kingdoms.

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

It was a great escape for me and it was a way to take a break from what was going on in my own world, to go into another world.

No barrier was strong enough to keep out the movement of time.

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.

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