We're [parents]) always bluffing, pretending we know best, when most of the time we're just praying we won't screw up too badly.

I believed the reason there was a God was to prevent such atrocities from happening to the same person twice. But nothing prepared me for this: I have done what I've sworn I could never do; I have become my own nightmare... I have lost control.

I am always consulted about covers, and give feedback, but I am also aware that what causes a customer to pick a book up off a shelf in the UK is very different from what causes a customer to pick a book up in the US.

I realized it was like looking into the sun—you shouldn't do it, because you'd turn your face away and be blind to everything else.

Believe me, Being gay is not a choice. Noone would choose to make life harder than it has to be.

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

May be you had to come close to losing something before you could remember its value.