It's crazy, right? To love someone who's hurt you? It's even crazier to think that someone who hurts you loves you.

I have several writer friends, but I don't involve them in my work process. I'm more likely to talk about the business of publishing with them.

The doctors may be mapping out the war games, but it is the nurses who make the conflict bearable.

This was the reason there was music, he realized. There were some feelings that didn't have words big enough to describe them.

Be kind to others before you take care of yourself; make whoever you're with feel like they matter.

They don't like the thought of someone else making demands on the person whom they see as belonging entirely to them.

I would prove to you that being different isn't a death sentence but a call to arms.