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

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

The weapons an author has at her disposal are flawed. There are words that feel shapeless and overused. Love, for example. I could write the word love a thousand times and it would mean a thousand different things to different readers.

Just because you didn't put a name to something did not mean it wasn't there.

There had been so many easy words between them that Daniel was guilty of nodding every now and then and tuning out the excess. He hadn't known, at the time, that he should have been hoarding these, like bits of sea glass hidden in the pocket of a winter coat to remind him that once it had been summer.

You give her all your french fries, even when she won't give you back onion rings,' Sophie says. 'And when you say her name it sounds different.' How?' Sophie thinks. 'Like it's covered with blankets.

Be kind to others before you take care of yourself; make whoever you're with feel like they matter.