Truly I never thought of myself as writing legal thrillers, and I still don't think I do. I write stories about women.

The thing about love is that we can't control whether we get it, but we can control whether we give it. And each feels as good as the other. Your heart doesn't know if it's loving a man, a book, or a puppy. If your heart were that smart, it would be your brain.

I am an open book, literally. I don't mind if people know way too much about me.

I love everything about Philadelphia, and its food is like the city itself: real-deal, hearty, and without pretension. We've always had an underdog vibe as a city, but that just makes us try harder, and I love our scrappiness and scruffiness.

Ellen had long ago stopped being embarrassed by temper tantrums. She flipped it and wore it like a badge of honor. A temper tantrum was a sign that a mom said no when it counted.

People project all sorts of emotions onto their cats, and cats like it that way.

Because the thing about love is that we can't control whether we get it, but we can control whether we give it.