I have several writer friends, but I don't involve them in my work process. I'm more likely to talk about the business of publishing with them.

for 100,000 (dollars), you [can] flatten a house with a wrecking ball. Imagine how much less it [takes] to destroy something than it [does] to build it in the first place.

Don't pay back in kind, pay back in kindness. If someone does wrong by you, do right by them.

The problem was, you couldn't have one without the other. There couldn't be a bad guy unless there was a good guy to create the standard. And there couldn't be a good guy until a bad guy showed just how far off the path he might stray.

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.

This is when I realize that Anna has already left the table, and more importantly, that nobody noticed.

Like Connor, Alex protected me -and he was the only person I let close enough to do it. Like Connor, Alex could finish my sentences before I did. But unlike Connor, for whom I had ultimately come too late, I was just in time to take care of Alex.