I always interpret coincidences as little clues to our destiny

There are moments in your life when the big pieces slide and shift. Sometimes the big changes dong happen gradually but all at once. That's how it was for us. That was the day we discovered that friends can do things for you that your parents can't.

He just wanted to look at her and know her life was marching along under the same arch of time and space as he is.

All the things she planned to feel, the way she planned to look and seem, the appropriate things she planned to say. None of them came to pass.

There was nothing new in sitting on this dock, on this or that wooden bench, watching for his boat to come. In some ways, she was always waiting for him.

As much as I'm drawn to writing about teenage girls, I like the idea of having the freedom to branch out and write about different ages, for different ages.

She had to have faith not just in trying but in failing. Was she strong enough to fail Was she strong enough not to