you never forget your first fall.

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.

Being a good mother, it seemed to me, meant you ran the risk of losing your child.

there's something nice about knowing that i'm not the only one who doesn't quite fit the part.

There were lies we told to save ourselves, and then there were lies we told to rescue others. What counted more, the mistruth, or the greater good?

Joseph Obomsawin, the elder I lived with there, says that those who turn to animals do so because humans have let them down.

There are some dreams that get stuck between your teeth when you sleep, so that when you open your mouth to yawn awake they fly right out of you.