I can’t—” Lena repeated. “I can’t do it. I can’t live without him.” Sara gently pulled her hand away from Jared’s. She smoothed down the sheet, tucked it in close around his side. She looked at Lena—really looked at her straight in the eye. “Good,” Sara told her. “Now you know how it feels.

sexual predators were like cockroaches. For every one you saw, there were twenty more hiding behind the walls.

A good editor is one of the sharpest tools a writer can have in her toolbox.

People just make stupid mistakes. And they keep making them and keep making them, and suddenly they can't dig themselves out.

Everybody had something horrible happen to them at one time or another in their life.

I can’t—” Lena repeated. “I can’t do it. I can’t live without him.” Sara gently pulled her hand away from Jared’s. She smoothed down the sheet, tucked it in close around his side. She looked at Lena—really looked at her straight in the eye. “Good,” Sara told her. “Now you know how it feels.

Reading is not just an escape. It is access to a better way of life.