I love to swim, and I love being near water.

Short on money, long on hope

She didn't love him and he didn't love her; she was like an addiction, and what they were doing had a darkness to it, a weight.

Either things grow and change or they die.

After Memory Keepers Daughter, it took me a few months to shut out the world. I really had to turn off the Internet and sort of cloister myself away from the world again and sink into that psychic space to write again.

The place was a familiar as breath but as far from his life now as the moon.

In some deep place in her heart, Caroline had kept alive the silly romantic notion that somehow David Henry had once known her as no one else ever could. But it was not true. He had never even glimpsed her.