These days her entire life was about making people believe she was someone she wasn't anymore.

I don't want to tell people what to think. I'm the least qualified person in the world for that. If I'd go around pretending to be the expert on everything, I'd become Dan Brown, and I don't understand that. We all do our research if we're good writers, and we all work hard to get it right, but that doesn't mean we're experts in the field. The best we can do is challenge people to learn the facts themselves.

Even though it hurt, there are kinds of pain you couldn't speak out loud.

There is a place in you that you don't even know exists, where you can simply stand back and watch without feeling any pain.

I wonder if the conversations you've never had with someone count, if you've been over them a thousand times in your mind.

Someone once told me that when you give birth to a daughter, you've just met the person whose hand you'll be holding the day you die.

If you focus on sandbagging the beachhead, you can ignore the tsunami that's approaching. Try it any other way and you'll go crazy.