If you were drifting with a thousand other people, could you really still say you were lost?

She wanted him to tell her that when you love someone so hard and so fierce, it was all right to do things that you knew were wrong.

I think we deserve a happily-ever-after." "If anyone ever did, it's us.

Something still exists as long as there's someone around to remember it.

I knew her well enough to understand that when Delia pushed you away, it was her way of making sure she didn't get shoved first.

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.

I don't write the same book over and over - I think if I did that, I would stop writing. I couldn't write a series with the same character, and I couldn't write a romance novel over and over again that takes place at a different beach every year. That's not who I am.