Some lessons can't be taught, they simply have to be learned.

I haven't run out of ideas yet. Usually while I'm working on a book, I'm doing research for the next one!

Why are you doing this to yourself? When something bad happens, why do you have to pick at it until it bleeds all over again?

The act of reading is a partnership. The author builds a house, but the reader makes it a home.

Sometimes all you need to live one more day is a good reason to stick around.

There's a cliff at the end point of a person's life; most us of peer over the edge of it, hanging on. That's why, when someone chooses to let go, it's so dramatically visible. The body will seem almost transparent. The eys will be looking at something the rest of us can't see.

Sometimes Chris wished he could sneak a peek at the back of the book, so to speak, and see how it was all going to turn out, so that he wouldn't have to bother going through the motions.