But what if your obsession has nothing to do with drugs or thrills or money? What if what you want most in the world is to recapture the way life was a week, a month, a year ago-and you are willing to do whatever it takes?

I’d much rather pretend I’m somewhere else, and any time I open the pages of a book, that happens.

I am an activist. I have a really big pulpit with my fiction and I love knowing that I can make people think.

I think her flaws make me love her even more. She's not perfect, but she's perfect to me

When it's all over, you're remembered for what you did, not what you said you were going to do.

Coop kissed me deeply, drawing my breath from me in a long, sweet ribbon. "Perhaps I haven't mentioned it, but I'm an expert when it comes to first steps." Are you," I said. "Then tell me how." You close your eyes," Coop answered, "and jump.

I always wondered why God was supposed to be a father," she whispers. Fathers always want you to measure up to something. Mothers are the ones who love you unconditionally, don't you think?