Motherhood was an ever widening circle of good-byes.

I definitely feel that plot flows from character. I dont believe that you can construct a plot and insert people into it.

Isn't it funny how the people least impacted by tragedy are the most eager to move on?

Alafair Burke is one of the finest young crime writers working today.

If I weren't a writer, I'd be a psychiatrist.

Others of us are lost. We're forever seeking. We torture ourselves with philosophies and ache to see the world. We question everything, even our own existence. We ask a lifetime of questions and are never satisfied with the answers because we don't recognize anyone as an authority to give them. We see life and the world as an enormous puzzle that we might never understand, that our questions might go unanswered until the day we die, almost never occurs to us. And when it does, it fills us with dread.

You can cut the ties that bind but not without losing a part of yourself. You can walk away and hide from the people who made you, but you'll always hear them calling your name.