She was forced to consider the startling fact that the love of her life might not actually be someone with whom she could spend a lifetime.

I found plain truth very interesting.

I don't write the same book over and over - I think if I did that, I would stop writing. I couldn't write a series with the same character, and I couldn't write a romance novel over and over again that takes place at a different beach every year. That's not who I am.

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

Imagine a world that seemed so much bigger than you. Imagine waking up one morning and finding a piece of yourself you didn't even know existed.

I, um, I have this problem. I broke up with my boyfriend, you see. And I'm pretty upset about it, so I wanted to talk to my best friend. [...] The thing is, they're both you.

I always hated when my scars started to fade, because as long as I could still see them, I knew why I was hurting.