I have the most devoted and loyal following. I could probably type up my grocery list and they'd all want to read it. I love that they're willing to let me go wherever I need to go as an author, and they're happy to come along for the ride as the reader.

History could hover, like a faint perfume or a memory stamped on the back of one's eyelids.

Where you come from does matter -- but not nearly as much as where you are headed.

What he did was wrong. He doesn't deserve your love. But he does deserve your forgiveness, because otherwise he will grow like a weed in your heart until it's choked and overrun. The only person who suffers, when you squirrel away all that hate, is you.

What being home-schooled has taught me, more than anything, is what a waste of a life high school is.

Just because fate had thrown another obstacle in my way didn't mean I had to give up my dreams.

She suddenly remembered studying the brain in science class- how a steel rod pierced a man's skull, and he opened his mouth to speak Portuguese, a language he'd never studied. Maybe it would be like this, now, for Josie. Maybe her native tongue, from here on in, would be a string of lies.