What matters most is how you respond to your heartbreaks and your disappointments and your fears. What matters most is who you become in response to them.

Nobody was perfect. Not even close. And everybody had wrinkles from smiling and squinting and craining their necks. Everybody has marks on their bodies from years of living- a trail of life left on them. Evidence of all the adventures and sleepless nights and practical jokes and heartbreaks that had made them who they are.

It's always better to have what you have than to get what you wanted.

People are always beautiful when you love them.

Success is doing the right thing for who you are.

I like to write about people who are real and likeable. I like to write about people who tell their stories in that close and intimate voice we use with best friends. I love the closeness and honesty and vulnerability that come from characters who can talk that way.

Writing a novel is a lot like reading one.