They were like people who run to meet, holding out their arms, but their aim is wrong; they pass each other and keep running.

I don't know what takes more courage: surviving a lifelong endurance test because you once made a promise or breaking free, disrupting all your world.

Smells could bring a person back clearer than pictures even could.

I consciously try to end my novels at a point where I won't have to wonder about my characters ever again.

When you have children, you're obligated to live.

Not until the final draft do I force myself to remember that I'm going to have to think about how it will affect other people.

You think we're a family,' Cody said, turning back. 'You think we're some jolly, situation-comedy family when we're in particles, torn apart, torn all over the place, and our mother was a witch.