But rules only work when everyone plays by them. What happens when someone doesn't, and the fallout bleeds right into his life? Whats stronger- the need to uphold the law, or the motive to turn one's back on it?

You can believe something really hard,' Faith says, 'and still be wrong.

He rises over me, a second sun, and fills me with light and heat.

So much of marriage was implicit and nonverbal. Had I gotten so complacent I'd forgotten to communicate?

Just because you keep something a secret doesn't mean it never happened, no matter how much you want that to be true.

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.

It's a fallacy that writers have to shut themselves up in their ivory towers to write. I have all these interruptions, three of which I gave birth to. If I was thrown for a loop every time I was distracted I could never get anything done.