You can widen the feet of a compass, but they are still attached at the top; you can spin them away from each other, but you always wind up where you started.

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.

Honey, Kate is not going to die sooner because you have one more glass of mine, or because you stay overnight in a hotel, or because you let yourself crack up at a bad joke. So sit your ass back down and turn up the volume and act like you're a normal person.

Jacob's room is the place entropy goes to die.

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

Sometimes all you need to live one more day is a good reason to stick around.

i know what it's like to wake up thinking you will be able to cast the people who play the starring roles in your life, only to realize that you have to watch it from the audience.