It didn't matter that I wore clothes from Sears; I was still different. I looked different. My name was different. I wanted to pull away from the things that marked my parents as being different.

A bicultural upbringing is a rich but imperfect thing

When I sit down to write, I don't think about writing about an idea or a given message. I just try to write a story which is hard enough.

I am drawn to any story that makes me want to read from one sentence to the next. I have no other criterion.

Sexy means loving someone you donot know.

And yet he had loved her. A Bookish girl heedless of her beauty, unconscious of her effect. She'd been prepared to live her life alone but from the moment he'd known her he'd needed her.

She has the gift of accepting her life.