I think this is every mother's worst nightmare - something dreadful happening to her child.

The weapons an author has at her disposal are flawed. There are words that feel shapeless and overused. Love, for example. I could write the word love a thousand times and it would mean a thousand different things to different readers.

But once you throw a stone, there are ripples in the pond, even if you remove the rock.

Why are terms of endearment always food? Honey, cookie, sugar, pumpkin. Its not like caring about someone is enough to actually sustain you.

You didn't get past something like that, you go through it -- and for that reason alone, I understood more about her than she ever would have guessed.

Sometimes to get what you want the most, you have to do what you want the least.

If you read a book that's fiction and you get caught in the characters and the plot, and swept away, really, by the fiction of it - by the non-reality - you sometimes wind up changing your reality as well. Often, when the last page is turned, it will haunt you.