You can fool yourself, you know. You'd think it's impossible, but it turns out it's the easiest thing of all.

Like a missing tooth, sometimes an absence is more noticeable than a presence.

I don't have to live the lives of my characters to write about them. It's about really putting yourself in their shoes.

Just because you had every right to feel sorry for yourself didn't mean you ever took the opportunity to do so.

I wonder if, as you get older, you stop missing people so fiercely. Maybe growing up is just focusing on what you've got, instead of what you don't.

The legal system works really well, if you communicate a certain way. But if you don't, it all goes to Hell in a handbasket really quickly.

The nurses, I have already learned, are the ones who give us the answers we’re desperate for. Unlike the doctors, who fidget like they need to be somewhere else, the nurses patiently answer us as if we are the first set of parents to ever have this kind of meeting with them, instead of the thousandth.