The thief you must fear the most is not the one who steals mere things.

They are so young, they forget that the world is not as in love with them as they are.

Hope is a gift. You can't choose to have it. To believe and yet to have no hope is to thirst beside a fountain.

Lies like that are not a sin, they are a sacrifice.

In terms of the secrets that imbue and underlie Fall on Your Knees, they were as much of a mystery to me as I was creating the story as they are to the readers.

The world should not be organized to require heroines, and when one is required but fails to appear, we should not judge.

Piece by piece living is hard to do. It may even feel like the hardest thing. But it has this going for it: you never need to know what it is you're carrying on your shoulders.