Most people in America want an easy read. I call it McFiction - books which pass right through you without you even digesting them. I don't mean a book that has two-syllable words. I mean chapters you can read in a toilet break. Happy endings. We are more of a TV culture.

When you have been burned by fire once, you don't leap into the flames again.

I knew her well enough to understand that when Delia pushed you away, it was her way of making sure she didn't get shoved first.

A lie took two parties - the weaver of the tale and the sucker who so badly wanted to believe it.

I wish I could tell him I understand: the higher you raise your hopes, the farther you have to fall.

There is a gulf as wide as an ocean between should and want, and I am drowning in it.

I never lose sight of the fact that before I was a writer, I was a teacher. I still am. My classroom's just gotten a little bigger.