All it takes is a second and your whole life can get turned upside down.

Crazy girls did this, girls who walked like zombies through YA novels. But. Trixie felt the sting of the skin as it split, the sweet welling rise of blood. It hurt, though not as much as everything else idd.

The book that made me want to be a writer in the first place was Gone with the Wind - I read it and wanted to create a whole world out of words, too.

In my family, we seem to have a tortured history of not saying what we ought to and not meaning what we do.

We all have things that come back to haunt us. Some of us just see them more clearly than others.

I will say overwhelmingly what means so much more to me than the opinion of one reviewer are the letters I get from fans who tell me how a particular book has changed their life.

As Lacy waited for her turn to speak on Peter's behalf, she thought back to the first time she realized she could hate her own child.