You make a life out of what you have, not what you're missing.

We're all unique, just never in the ways we imagine.

There's a market for mysteries for adults. That feeling of opening a book and delving inside and not coming out until you've closed the book.

People might think writing is a hard business, but it's nowhere near acting.

Oh, Grey, no one really likes keeping secrets. The only thing that makes a secret fun is knowing that you weren't supposed to tell it.

I sound contemptuous, but I am not. I am interested--intrigued even--by the way time erases real lives, leaving only vague imprints. Blood and spirit fade away so that only names and dates remain.

I've heard it said that children born to stressful times never shake the air of woe . . . .