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

The only person who suffers, when you squirrel alway all that hate, is you.

I think once you sign on to be a mother, that's the only shift they offer.

Things don't always look as they seem.

It felt like I'd been living underground, and for a moment, I'd been given this glimpse of the sky. Once you've seen that, how can you go back where you came from?

I had the heart of the relationship, and no body to grow it in... It broke.

You know what I noticed when I was with Jacob? In your world, people can reach each other in an instant. There's the telephone, and the fax - and on the computer you can talk to someone all the way around the world. You've got people telling their secrets on TV talk shows, and magazines that publish pictures of movie stars trying to hide their homes. All those connections, but everyone there seems so lonely.