What being home-schooled has taught me, more than anything, is what a waste of a life high school is.

My favorite part of any event is a Q&A. I do get asked a lot of the same questions but every now and then someone surprises me - and I LOVE that.

I know that books I have written will still resonate in 50 years - particularly 'My Sister's Keeper.' It has sold three million copies in the States alone. I strongly feel that, as a novelist, you have a platform and the ability to change people's minds.

Words are like eggs dropped from great heights; you can no more call them back than ignore the mess they leave when they fall.

No matter how much you consumed, you would not have your fill.

She wondered if this was true of every parent: if, prior to having children, they all used to be someone else.

The real power of a wolf isn't in its fearsome jaws, which can clench with fifteen hundred pounds of pressure per square inch. The real power of a wolf is having that strength, and knowing when not to use it.