I know that books I have written will still resonate in 50 years - particularly 'My Sister's Keeper.' It has sold three million copies in the States alone. I strongly feel that, as a novelist, you have a platform and the ability to change people's minds.

but if I've learned anything, it's that we don't know half of what we think we do. And we know ourselves least of all.

Lawyers were notorious for finding cases in the most unlikely places, especially ones with huge potential damagers awards.

Love is not an equation, it is not a contract, and it is not a happy ending. Love is the slate under the chalk, the ground that buildings rise, and the oxygen in the air. It is the place you come back to, no matter where your headed

a public persona that might be different from what we truly feel inside... everyone wonders if they are good enough, smart enough, pretty enough, no matter how old they are. It is an archetypical moral dilemma - Do you act like yourself and risk becoming an outcast?

people think they know what they're getting, and they're always wrong.

What you had could never make up for what you'd lost.