Reading fiction is important. It is a vital means of imagining a life other than our own, which in turn makes us more empathetic beings. Following complex story lines stretches our brains beyond the 140 characters of sound-bite thinking, and staying within the world of a novel gives us the ability to be quiet and alone, two skills that are disappearing faster than the polar icecaps.

Everybody believes in chance.

The light was cut to lace by the trees that had grown so thick with leaves in the last few months.

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

You are the same person in every aspect of your life, and you have to be a responsible person in every aspect of your life.

My writing process has changed because it's harder to find uninterrupted time.

There was no time for kissing but she wanted him to know that in the future there would be. A kiss in so much loneliness was like a hand pulling you up out of the water, scooping you up from a place of drowning and into the reckless abundance of air. A kiss, another kiss.