He gently touched his mother's cheek, felt her sorrow slip over his fingertips.

Writing is total grunt work. A lot of people think it's all about sitting and waiting for the muse. I don't buy that. It's a job. There are days when I really want to write, days when I don't. Every day I sit down and write.

Sometimes to get what you want the most, you have to do what you want the least.

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

But that's what love is, isn't it? When it hurts you more to see someone suffer than it does to take the pain away?

You don't make a friend," Jacob said with a scowl. "It's not like they come with directions like you'd find on a box of macaroni and cheese.

think about it: Romeo and Juliet bucked the system, and look where it got them. Superman has the hots for Lois Lane, when the better match, of course, would be with Wonder Woman.