Until this moment, I had not realized that someone could break your heart twice, along the very same fault lines.

I keep quite busy, walk 5 miles a day, and have an excellent hairdresser who keeps the gray out of my red hair.

It was the first time she'd discovered something she really didn't want to find, and she didn't know what to do once she'd found it.

She had loved him. He knew this; he had never doubted it. But she had also asked him to kill her. If you love someone that much, you did not lay that sort of burden on him for the rest of his life.

I know that books I have written will still resonate in 50 years - particularly 'My Sister's Keeper.' It has sold three million copies in the States alone. I strongly feel that, as a novelist, you have a platform and the ability to change people's minds.

Kids think with their brains cracked wide open; becoming an adult, I've decided, is only a slow sewing shut.

There is no cosmic scale on which you can weigh your actions; you learn too late what choices ruin the fragile balance.