Developing characters is a strange thing. In the beginning they are abstract and I wonder how to move on from there.

I agree that a love of reading is a great gift for a parent to pass on to his or her child.

How is it that a person could be so relieved and so disappointed, both at the same time.

You don't have time, Len. That is the most bitter and the most beautiful pieve of advice I can offer. If you don't have what you want now, you don't have what you want. -pg276

He'd pushed her. He'd scared her. He'd besieged her. He'd vowed he wouldn't, and he did.

You couldn't erase the past. You couldn't even change it. But sometimes life offered you the opportunity to put it right.

she never showed girly weaknesses like cellulite or crushes. she never lingered on injustices committed against her.