Sometimes to get what you want the most, you have to do what you want the least.

I had absolutely no trauma in my childhood. If anyone ever assumed that my books were autobiographical, they'd be sorely disappointed, because none of these things happened to me.

I don't know the first thing about holding together a family, especially one that resembles an heirloom vase, shattered but glued back together for its beauty, and no one mentions that you can see the cracks as plain as day.

Add love, and all the lines between right and wrong were bound to disappear.

I don't have to live the lives of my characters to write about them. It's about really putting yourself in their shoes.

He rises over me, a second sun, and fills me with light and heat.

How far can a person go... and still live with himself.