They say that there are moments that open up your life like a walnut cracked, that change your point of view so that you never look at things the same way again.

When you think you're right, you're most likely wrong.

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 haven't run out of ideas yet. Usually while I'm working on a book, I'm doing research for the next one!

We could all be lucky. We could all be what we want to be, instead of who someone else told us to be.

What she couldn't put into word was what had happened in between to change her from one person into the other

The world just feels different for those of us who come alive after dark. It's more fragile and unreal, a replica of the one everyone else inhabits.