I missed her then but it was an odd sort of missing because by then, I knew the meaning of forever.

I don't do much public speaking. I did a lot of stuff for Bones, and then ended up having said yes to a lot of things that kept me on the road for a while for that, but then I pretty much stopped. I'm touring for this book, but when the tour is done, that'll be the end of it.

There’s no condition one adjusts to so quickly as a state of war.

I was in the air around him. I was in the cold mornings he had now. I was in the quiet time he spent alone. I was the girl he had chosen to kiss. He wanted, somehow to set me free. -Susie Salmon

Please don't let Daddy die Susie," he whispered. "I need him.

In my 20s, I railed against anything 'spiritual', I thought it was all crap.

People grow up by living.