Here's what no one ever tells you about love: it hurts, having your heart broken

Even though I don't write about things that come from my life because I'm lucky, and I live in a great place with great kids and, you know, a great husband, I think you can find threads of me in the characters, so that's really what being a writer is, probably.

Writing is grunt work - you need to have self-motivation, perseverance, and faith... talent is the smallest part of it.

The wolves knew when it was time to stop looking for what they'd lost, to focus instead on what was yet to come.

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.

The apple . . . came before Adam and Eve in the story of creation. It had to have been there at least three years because that's how long it takes for a new tree to bear fruit.

Reason number 106 why dogs are smarter than humans: once you leave the litter, you server contact with your mothers.