You could only save someone that wanted to be saved; otherwise, you'd be be dragged down for the count, too.

There's always going to be bad stuff out there. But here's the amazing thing -- light trumps darkness, every time. You stick a candle into the dark, but you can't stick the dark into the light.

Even though I don't write about things that come from my life because I'm lucky, and I live in a great place with great kids and, you know, a great husband, I think you can find threads of me in the characters, so that's really what being a writer is, probably.

if you tell yourself you feel fine, you will.

I could not remember my first kiss, but I could have told you Charlotte would be my last.

My mother... she is beautiful, softened at the edges and tempered with a spine of steel. I want to grow old and be like her.

It takes two people to make a friendship work