Maybe it is desperation. Maybe we can't let things fall apart without trying. We can't let go of the people we love.

I've loved you since the day I stole the atlas for you," Gabriel says, because he thinks I'm asleep.

You can try to please everyone and risk accomplishing nothing, or go for your dreams and risk pissing a few people off.

The madness of youth made me unafraid.

There's a world out there that nobody has bothered to promise her.

When I was 11 or 12, I was really bored with everything on my summer reading list. It was all happy, middle-grade kinds of books. I was getting frustrated, because I liked to read. My mother went to the library and got me a copy of 'The Other Side of Midnight' by Sidney Sheldon. It was my first adult book.

The only characters I ever don't like are ones that leave no impression on me. And I don't write characters that leave no impression on me.