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.

It's best to let her go," he says. No, no, that's wrong. It's never right to give up on someone.

The thing about hope is that it doesn't go away even when it serves no purpose.

I think she's brave. I think that nobody has ever believed what she could be capable of. All her life, nobody was listening.

The madness of youth made me unafraid.

She's been conned, ruined, left for dead, and she's not going to forgive any of it. She will soldier on, if only out of spite.

Times like this, when she slips her hand into mine and holds on tight, and our husband becomes just a shadow in the doorway.