Open your heart. Someone will come. Someone will come for you. But first you must open your heart. (Old Doll)

But let's not speak of what might have been. Let us speak instead of what is. You are whole.

There ain't no point in making soup unless others eat it. Soup needs another mouth to taste it, another heart to be warmed by it.

I never want to be a role model.

I was born in Philadelphia and currently live in Minneapolis. I write for both children and adults.

If I am just home and writing, I become very strange.

During the night, while Bull and Lucy slept, Edward, with ever-open eyes, stared up at the constellations. He said their names, and then he said the names of the people who loved him. He started with Abilene, and then went on to Nellie and Lawrence and from there to Bull and Lucy, and then he ended again with Abilene: Abilene, Nellie, Lawrence, Bull, Lucy, Abilene. See? Edward told Pellegrina. I am not like the princess. I know about love.