Normally, Edward would have found intrusive, clingy behavior of this sort very annoying, but there was something about Sarah Ruth. He wanted to take care of her. He wanted to protect her. He wanted to do more for her. (page 135)

I'm just doing what I've done my whole life, which is talking to people about books and making them read. It's what I do in my friendships. "Here, you have to read this, you have to read this."

If you have no intention of loving or being loved, the whole journey is pointless.

You don't realize what you're going to get, and you can't prepare yourself for it.

Rats have a sense of humor. Rats, in fact think the world is very funny. And they are right, dear reader. They are right.

I'm continually astonished with myself how different people bring out things in me that I never knew I had inside me. Each new friendship can make you a new person, because it opens up new doors inside of you.

I am single and childless, but I have lots of friends and I am an aunt to three lovely children.