I am always consulted about covers, and give feedback, but I am also aware that what causes a customer to pick a book up off a shelf in the UK is very different from what causes a customer to pick a book up in the US.

It doesn't take a whole long life to realize that what we deserve to have, we rarely get.

Frankly, I wonder who Frank was, and why he has an adverb all to himself.

I know that the first person I kissed won't be nearly as important as the last person I kiss.

a public persona that might be different from what we truly feel inside... everyone wonders if they are good enough, smart enough, pretty enough, no matter how old they are. It is an archetypical moral dilemma - Do you act like yourself and risk becoming an outcast?

That,” she says, “was never here before.

A lie, as you probably know, has a taste all its own. Blocky and bitter and never quite right.