As for his name, well, what attorney wouldn't want to be able put a Judge in a crate every now and then?

Sometimes when you find something you didn't really realize you were looking for, you just don't know how to react.

He insisted that stars were people so well loved, they were traced in constellations, to live forever

You fell in love with someone because of the tilt of his smile, or because he could make you laugh, or in this case, because he made you believe that you were the only one who could save him.

I haven't run out of ideas yet. Usually while I'm working on a book, I'm doing research for the next one!

I can see myself now, she said. And I can see what I want to be, ten years from now. But I don't understand how I'm going to get from here to there.

What does it feel like?” he asked. “What does what feel like?” Peter thought for a moment. “Being at the top.” Josie reached across him for another packet of material and fed it into the stapler. She did three of these, and Peter was certain that she was going to ignore him, but then she spoke. “Like if you take one wrong step,” she said, “you’re going to fall.