The more you feel, the stronger you are.

He stepped off the pavement like a man jumping off a bridge, as calm as a swimmer with an ocean out below. Lucy had known what he was going to do the instant their eyes met. She'd know what he intended because she would have done the very same thing if she'd had his courage. Nothing was going to break his fall.

Sometimes, running away means you're headed in the exact right direction.

Before she realized he was next to her, he had placed his hands over hers on the countertop, then hooped his fingers through hers. Gretel looked up at him, so startled she might as well have been shot. 'I just wanted to wake you up', he said. Which is exactly what he did. One look at him and her heart was racing. One look, and whatever had been before was all over.

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

I must keep my head and not give in to desire, for desire is what causes women to drown.

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