Maybe, sometimes, it's easier to be mad at the people you trust because you know they'll always love you, no matter what.

Maybe, sometimes, it's easier to be mad at the people you trust because you know they'll always love you, no matter what.

There are some people who fall in love over and over.

Besides being asked why I write about young characters, I am often asked how I write about young characters. How do I throw myself across the chasm of full adulthood to relive that period? I guess I don’t, really. Age is not so much a feature of your character, as the spot where you stand for a pretty fleeting time on the arc of your life.

She had never had a boy talk to her like that. There was no cover of bullshit, no flirtation, no added charm, but his look was searing. He was different from anyone she had known.

The path of your life can change in an instant.

She was astonished, and at the same time she knew. There were many things in life like that. You couldn’t imagine it, and then it happened and you couldn’t really imagine it hadn’t.