I shouldn't have eavesdropped, but sometimes, that's the only way to find out the truth.

Losing Chloe had been like reading a wonderfulook only to realize that all the pages past a certain point were blank.

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.

The scariest thing in the world is thinking someone you love is going to die.

Eric understands that the world is rarelythe way it is supposed to be. And he knows that, given the chance, we don't have to wait for someone to make messes of our lives. We do a good enough job, ourselves.

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.

She wondered if this was true of every parent: if, prior to having children, they all used to be someone else.