The kind of love that offers its life so easily, so stupidly, is always the love that is not returned.

No one should have to go back to the place where she had once been a girl.

I believe, in my better moments, that there is a plan and things go not the way we want them to but the way they should.

This is my job, my livelihood: the health and the well-being of the publishing industry. We're all responsible for this.

I will write my way into another life.

Hope is a horrible thing, you know. I don't know who decided to package hope as a virtue because it's not. It's a plague. Hope is like walking around with a fishhook in your mouth and somebody just keeps pulling it and pulling it.

I know where I'm going. And if I don't know where I'm going, I don't tend to get anywhere.