All of my books come from something that I happen to be working out at a given point in my life. Its kind of self-therapy.

You … You had always made the future feel safe. As long as you were in it too, beside me, I could be okay.

This is what happens when nice people are pushed too far. We give too many chances, and so when we've finally had enough, we are well and truly done. When a nice person shuts a door on you, it's shut for good.

Most of our parents wanted the best for us, I knew, but we also wanted the best for them.

I was a book lover from the beginning. I loved, love, words and images and ideas, the ways a book can make you feel things deeply or help you understand something you never even knew there were words for.

It made me wonder how many times we forgive just because we don't want to lose someone, even if they don't deserve our forgiveness.

Darkness does this. It finds all the places you are hiding in. It finds all the things you are holding onto tightly and makes you let go.