Honey, Kate is not going to die sooner because you have one more glass of mine, or because you stay overnight in a hotel, or because you let yourself crack up at a bad joke. So sit your ass back down and turn up the volume and act like you're a normal person.

When you are a kid you have your own language, and unlike French or Spanish or whatever you start learning in fourth grade, this one you are born with, and eventually lose...Kids think with their brains cracked wide open; becoming an adult...is only a slow sewing it shut.

Reason number 106 why dogs are smarter than humans: once you leave the litter, you server contact with your mothers.

We all have things that come back to haunt us. Some of us just see them more clearly than others.

I am Alice in Wonderland', Josie thought. 'Watch me fall.

The bigger the hole inside you, the more desperate you became to fill it.

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