Things break all the time. Glass and dishes and fingernails. Cars and contracts and potato chips. You can break a record, a horse, a dollar. You can break the ice. There are coffee breaks and lunch breaks and prison breaks. Day breaks, waves break, voices break. Chains can be broken. So can silence, and fever... promises break. Hearts break.

Losing Chloe had been like reading a wonderfulook only to realize that all the pages past a certain point were blank.

i know what it's like to wake up thinking you will be able to cast the people who play the starring roles in your life, only to realize that you have to watch it from the audience.

Fiction allows for moral questioning, but through the back door. Personally, I like books that make you think - books you're still wondering about three days after you finish them; books you hand to a friend and say "Read this, so we can talk about it."

May be you had to come close to losing something before you could remember its value.

I thought lightning wasn't supposed to strike in the same place twice....sure it does...but only if you're too dumb to move.

Anger, though, is too fierce a flame to last for long, and when it burned out, I was left numb and wondering.