There are so many ways to betray someone. You can whisper behind his back. You can deceive him on purpose. You can deliver him into the hands of his enemy, when he trusts you. You can break a promise. The question is, if you do any of those things, are you also betraying yourself?

What she couldn't put into word was what had happened in between to change her from one person into the other

It is always hardest for me to write a book that has kids in it close to my kids' ages. It is always hardest for me to write a book that has kids in it close to my kids' ages.

The best way to prevent a heartache was to cushion the coming blow.

Parents aren’t the people you come from. They’re the people you want to be, when you grow up.

What is right, in the end, is not always what it seems to be, and some rules are better broken.

And I remembered something else that makes us human: faith, the only weapon in our arsenal to battle doubt.