The best thing about endings is knowing that just ahead is the daunting task to start over.

You can stay up all night and still not count all the ways to lose the people you love.

I didn't want to see her because it would make me feel better. I came because without her, it's hard to remember who I am.

I think many of my books, including "Handle with Care," including "My Sister's Keeper" circle back to how far are we willing to go for the people we love? I think love changes the way we think. It's the thing that takes you out of what your normal set of beliefs would be.

People work too hard to figure out the meaning of their lives. Why me, why now. The truth is, sometimes things don't happen to you for a reason. Sometimes it's just about being in the right place at the right time for someone else.

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??

Me, I was already jaded and tarnished, skeptical that a fantasy world could keep reality at bay.