Many of my books come from what if questions that I can't answer, things that I'm worried about as either a woman, a wife, a mom, an American.

She wanted him to tell her that when you love someone so hard and so fierce, it was all right to do things that you knew were wrong.

We could all be lucky. We could all be what we want to be, instead of who someone else told us to be.

We dont have to accept each others beliefs..but we do have to accept each others right to believe them.

I know that there will be other women, but they couldn't compare. Maybe I'll change, maybe love will change, but I think we were a once-in-a-lifetime. You could never leave me; that's why I am not more upset. You can't possibly break these feelings. They stretch, and they last.

There is no cosmic scale on which you can weigh your actions; you learn too late what choices ruin the fragile balance.

The only monsters I have ever known were men.