You don't make a friend," Jacob said with a scowl. "It's not like they come with directions like you'd find on a box of macaroni and cheese.

May be you had to come close to losing something before you could remember its value.

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.

But once you throw a stone, there are ripples in the pond, even if you remove the rock.

When we're awake, we see what we need to see. When we're asleep, we see what is really there.

I knew what it was like to lose someone you loved. You didn't get past something like that, you got through it.

No one gets to start where they left off; it just doesn't work that way.