There are certain things that I'll hear about and that I think will make a great book and I put it in a file. Sometimes it's a situation that interests me, and I don't even realize what I'm trying to say about it until I get closer to it. Sometimes the book after that I've written 125 pages of, and I can tell you what the book is after that. I just sort of have a linear progression, but more than anything, the topics land in your lap. I don't feel that I go out searching for them.

Sometimes, mothers say and do things that seem like they don't want their kids... but when you look more closely, you realize that they're doing those kids a favor. They're just trying to give them a better life.

She was forced to consider the startling fact that the love of her life might not actually be someone with whom she could spend a lifetime.

You live and let live, eventually that becomes enough.

It took me a lifetime to realizethings don't get lost if they don't have value- you don't miss what you don't care about.

He smiles at me, and I am suddenly seventeen again - the year I realize that love doesn't follow the rules, the year I understood that nothing is worth having so much as something unattainable

In Poland, for a while, my books all had cartoons on the cover. I trust my publishers in each country to know what works in their individual markets.