You might have to lose control before you could find out what you'd been missing.

It is always hardest for me to write a book that has kids in it close to my kids' ages. It is always hardest for me to write a book that has kids in it close to my kids' ages.

You can blame your ugliness for keeping people at bay, when in reality you're crippled by the thought of letting another person close enough to popentially scar you even more deeply. You can tell yourself that it's safer to love someone who will never really love you back, because you can't lose someone you never had.

She understood what it was like to stand right in front of people you loved, even though they could not see you.

They don't really pay attention to me, except when they need my blood or something. I wouldn't even be alive, if it wasn't for Kate being sick.

true love is felonious… You take someone’s breath away… You rob them of the ability to utter a single word… You steal a heart.

I am an activist. I have a really big pulpit with my fiction and I love knowing that I can make people think.