I realize how quickly lies compound. They cover like a coat of paint, one on top of the other, until you cannot remember what color you started with.

After a certain point, a heart with so many stress fractures can never be anything but broken.

Did you ever walk through a room that's packed with people, and feel so lonely you can hardly take the next step?

Bleeding heart, he’d called her. Well. He should know. He’d been the first to rip it to pieces.

The question I hate the most is "How did you DO it - write novels and raise your children simultaneously!" I mean, do MALE authors get asked that??

Things that look impossible suddenly seem a lot better, once you get God on board.

There are some dreams that get stuck between your teeth when you sleep, so that when you open your mouth to yawn awake they fly right out of you.