You can blame your ugliness for keeping people at bay, when in reality you're crippled by the thought of letting another person close enough to popentially scar you even more deeply. You can tell yourself that it's safer to love someone who will never really love you back, because you can't lose someone you never had.

Writing is total grunt work. A lot of people think it's all about sitting and waiting for the muse. I don't buy that. It's a job. There are days when I really want to write, days when I don't. Every day I sit down and write.

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

Listen,” she said. “I may not be what you want right now, but I’m all you’ve got.

if there isn’t a them, there can’t be an us.

Campbell" Julia says "Don't do this to me" "Do what?" "Push me off the same cliff twice

I don't write the same book over and over - I think if I did that, I would stop writing. I couldn't write a series with the same character, and I couldn't write a romance novel over and over again that takes place at a different beach every year. That's not who I am.