I know you'll think this is crazy, but all I want to do is hold you, and I think that if you'll let me do that just for a few seconds, I can walk away, and never speak to you again.

I'm not an urban person.

To persevere is always a reflection of the state of one's inner life, one's philosophy and one's perspective

My father is a practicing criminal law attorney in the Seattle area.

I was aware that there is an expectation that writers inevitably falter at this stage, that they fail to live up to the promise of their first successful book, that the next book never pleases the way the prior one did. It simply increased my sense of being challenged.

I think of myself as a really happy person.

accident ruled every corner of the universe except the chambers of the human heart.