The ability to find sparks may be buried so deep in you that you stop believing there's a God. Until someone comes along, with so much light in her that you can't help but see your own, and when you're together,that light grows even brighter.

Then they scrambled through the window and into the darkness, determined to turn themselves into what they were not.

Parenting is really just a matter of tracking, of hoping your kids do not get so far ahead you can no longer see their next moves.

I don't believe in writer's block. Most of writer's block is having too much time on your hands. My mantra is that you can always edit a bad page; you can't edit a blank page.

I think that when you live in a world with limits... when you've met everyone and seem everything you're going to see - you lose the hope that something extraordinary will happen in your life

it was possible to grow up in an instant, that you could look down and see the line in the sand dividing your life now from what it used to be.

The only person who suffers, when you squirrel alway all that hate, is you.