There are, of course, people who didn't create the trouble they're in, but lots of them do.

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.

Love was action. It came to you. It was not a choice.

That's important to me, to recommend books.

Only a few of us are going to be willing to break our own hearts by trading in the living beauty of imagination for the stark disappointment of words.

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

My novels are very much the same, as I think many people's novels are. No matter how hard I try to do otherwise, the books always wind up being "a group of strangers are thrown together by circumstance and form a society."