Men. You can't live with them...and you can't legally shoot them. I tossed out my husband eight years ago and got a llama instead. Best decision I ever made.

And just like that, something inside shifted very subtly, so that all the empty spaces in him suddenly disappeared, so that his breath timed to hers, so that his blood sang. This is why there was music, he realized. There were some feelings that just didn’t have words big enough to describe them.

When I was little I bragged about my firefighting father: my father would go to heaven, because if he went to hell he would put out all the fires.

My mother walks forward. She's crying, but there's a smile on her face. For God's sake, is it any wonder I can't ever understand what you people are feeling?

Isn't it amazing how, when you strip away everything, people are so much alike?

I am Alice in Wonderland', Josie thought. 'Watch me fall.

I don't have to live the lives of my characters to write about them. It's about really putting yourself in their shoes.